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Bunčić, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-8907 (2020). Agent prominence and movement in Russian third person plural impersonals (“indefinite-personal sentences”). Die Welt der Slaven, 65 (2). pp. 297-311. ISSN 0043-2520

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Abstract

The present paper reports the results of an acceptability judgement test designed to test two hypotheses: first, that the Russian 3pl impersonal construction is affected by agent prominence, i.e. verbs implying a more prominent agent are more acceptable than verbs implying an agent with fewer agentivity features; second, that movement as an agentivity feature should be conceptualized as a gradual category, thus making a fast-moving referent a more prominent agent than one moving slowly. The former hypothesis could be verified, the latter falsified.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bunčić, Daniel daniel.buncic@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-8907 91457706
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-376511
Journal or Publication Title:	Die Welt der Slaven
Volume:	65
Number:	2
Page Range:	pp. 297-311
Date:	1 July 2020
ISSN:	0043-2520
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Slavisches Institut Collaborative Research Centers > CRC 1252: Prominence in Language > TP B01
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics Other languages
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language agentivity; linguistic prominence; verbs of motion; volition; sentience English
Related URLs:	Abstract
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/37651