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• A Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian Chronicles

  14 p.

  Beáta Györfi

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  East Slavic languages, in contrast with South and West Slavonic ones did not retain enclitic pronominals. In Old Russian (ОR) however, these forms were widely used. As manuscripts suggest, they dissapeared from the language by the end of the OR period, i. e. by the 15th-16th centuries. The paper gives an overview of the use of enclitic pronominals in the text of five OR chronicles relying on the diachronic corpus of Russian National Corpus. The analysis focuses on the  distribution of clitic pronominals, their placement, clusterizing properties and deviating constructions. The last section is devoted to the placement of the investigated phenomenon in the complex of parametric variation envoked by the disintegration of the tense-aspect system.

• The Current Status of Corpus Linguistics in Russian Linguistics (Shuneyko, A. A. : Корпусная лингвистика. Учебник для вузов. 2020. Moscow, Yurayt ISBN 978-5-534-13603-6)

  Beáta Györfi

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  Corpus linguistics is a relatively new, however rapidly developing area of linguistics. Nevertheless, the methodology of corpus research and its results are scarcely applied in current linguistic research. In the present article a short overview of the history of corpus linguistics is given. The difficulties of the development and spreading of this discipline in Russia is also described. A brief outline of Russian textbooks on corpus linguistics is also provided with special focus on Shuneyko’s latest work.

• On the Existence of Expletive Subjects in Russian

  11 p.

  Beáta Györfi

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  154

  According to traditional grammars, Russian does not contain expletive subjects. However,
  investigations in the generative framework suggest, that the pronoun это with certain
  predicates can be perceived as an expletive subject. The present article gives a short overview
  of previous investigations and aims at providing a unified analysis of constructions with -o
  final adverbial predicates or with the verbs бывать and нравиться.