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dc.contributor.advisorNesset, Tore
dc.contributor.authorGjervold, Jonas Hinrichsen
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-19T10:48:04Z
dc.date.available2014-09-19T10:48:04Z
dc.date.issued2014-05-28
dc.description.abstractThe prefixation of base imperfective verbs to create semantically identical perfective partner verbs is a central feature of the Russian verb. There are sixteen such perfectivizing prefixes and prefix variation is when a single unprefixed imperfective combines with more than one of these to form multiple aspectual partners. This fact has been used to dispel a long held belief that perfectivizing prefixes are semantically empty aspectual markers; why do you need more than one prefix to do the job of one, and why does a single imperfective take multiple prefixes if they are semantically identical? This thesis examines prefix variation from a new angle by occasional verbs to standardized language. A database of occasional verbs was created to make possible the comparison to pre-existing databases on standardized language, which led to the conclusion that prefix variation is much more common in occasional verbs, and that the aspectual pairs in occasional verbs are formed overwhelmingly in combination with the prefix za-. This indicates that za-, and not po- or s-, is the most productive prefix in contemporary Russian, at least in slang/jargon.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/6725
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_6322
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2014 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDRUS-3960en
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028 Prefix Variationen
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028 Aspecten
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028 Prefix Productivityen
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028 Za-en
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028 Occasional Verbsen
dc.titlePrefix Variation in Russian: A Comparison between Occasional Verbs and Standardized Languageen
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen


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