Papers by Vera Podlesskaya
Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies
Based on data from the multimedia subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, the paper addresses s... more Based on data from the multimedia subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, the paper addresses syntactic, pragmatic and prosodic features of insubordinated adverbial clauses introduced by the adverbial subordinator potomu čto ‘because’. The quantitative analysis showed that more than 30% of reason clauses in spoken discourse appear to be insubordinated. Qualitatively, we observed symptoms of insubordination at various levels. (1) Prosodically, insubordinated clauses are placed after discourse fragments that are articulated with falling pitch projecting no continuation and are separated from them by the prosodic break. (2) Pragmatically, they can have independent illocutionary force and can form separate turns in dialogues. (3) Grammatically, they allow right dislocation of the adverbial subordinator – otherwise blocked in adverbial clauses.
Армянское бан как дискурсивный маркер речевого сбоя
Auxiliation of ‘give’ verbs in Russian
Review of: О. Ю. Инькова (ред.). Семантика коннекторов: контрастивное исследование. М.: ТОРУС ПРЕСС, 2018. 368 с. [O. Yu. Inkova (ed.). Semantika konnektorov: kontrastivnoe issledovanie [Semantics of connectives: A contrastive study]. Moscow: TORUS PRESS, 2018. 368 p.]. ISBN 978-5-94588-233-1
Вопросы языкознания, Oct 1, 2019
“Étu… kak ejo… perepisku Éngelsa s etim … kak ego, djavola… s Kautskim” – A Case Study of a Placeholder in Russian
Russkaia Rech
76. Conditional constructions
Language Typology and Language Universals
Donum Semanticum: Opera linguistica et logica in honorem Barbarae Partee a discipulis amicisque Rossicis oblata
Converbs in Japanese
Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Publikationsansicht. 48059342. Converbs in Japanese (1995). ... Keywords, general linguistics, Ge... more Publikationsansicht. 48059342. Converbs in Japanese (1995). ... Keywords, general linguistics, General Linguistics, typology, Typology, syntax, Syntax. Typ, Text. Verknüpfungen, Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, http://wals.info/feature/64. ...
Армянское бан как дискурсивный маркер речевого сбоя
Revue arménienne humanitaire, 2006
Ural-Altaic Studies, 2021
Based on the data from Japanese personal blogs the paper addresses grammar and pragmatics of the ... more Based on the data from Japanese personal blogs the paper addresses grammar and pragmatics of the Japanese constructions with the quotative marker to. The aim is twofold: (a) to describe the actual use of quotatives in informal electronic discourse; and (b) to put the Japanese data in the context of the current discussion about the nature of the direct/indirect speech opposition. Japanese is shown to be an intriguing case when it comes to distinguishing direct and indirect reports. First, it lacks standard indexicals typical for languages known as “standard average European”, e.g. there is no personal agreement, first and second personal pronouns are extremely rare, hence, one can rely only on optional indexicals, like benefactives, honorifics or the so called final pragmatic particles. Furthermore, even these optional indexicals may operate controversially within one and the same utterance — some being oriented towards the external narrator (which is typical for pragmatically indire...
Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2021
The correlation between the cognitive accessibility of an object and the way of representing this... more The correlation between the cognitive accessibility of an object and the way of representing this object in the text when retelling a video plot or stories based on a set of pictures has been investigated. The key research method involves eliciting and documenting narratives. Two groups of subjects were tested: a group of schoolchildren 15—17 years old (N: 20) and a group of adults 35—40 years old (N: 21). Cognitive accessibility is understood as a parameter that consists of ontological accessibility (whether the object is accessible to the speaker in direct experience) and lexical accessibility (whether a well-mastered lexicalized way of naming the object is available to the speaker, i.e. a fixed specific word or expression). The following questions were posed: (1) is there a correlation between the cognitive accessibility of an object and the frequency of mentioning this object in the text; and (2) is there is a correlation between the cognitive accessibility of the object and the...
Based on data from the Russian National Corpus and the General InternetCorpus of Russian, the pap... more Based on data from the Russian National Corpus and the General InternetCorpus of Russian, the paper addresses syntactic, sematic and prosodic features of constructions with the demonstrative TOT used as an anaphor. These constructions have gained some attention in earlier studies [Paducheva 2016], [Berger, Weiss 1987], [Kibrik 2011], [Podlesskaya 2001], but their analysis (a) covered primarily their prototypical uses; and (b) was based on written data. The data from informal, esp. from spoken discourse show however that the actual use of these constructions may deviate considerably from the known prototype. The paper aims at bridging this gap. I claim (i) that the function of TOT is to temporary promote a referent from a less privileged discourse status to a more privileged one; and (ii) that TOT can be analyzed on a par with switch reference devices in the languages where the latter are grammatically marked (e.g. on verb forms). The following parameters of TOT-constructions are dis...
Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies, 2020
The paper addresses the overall distribution of speech disfluencies in Russian spoken monologic d... more The paper addresses the overall distribution of speech disfluencies in Russian spoken monologic discourse: basing on corpus data, we investigate qualitatively and quantitatively how disfluencies of different types group (or do not group) with each other and how isolated disfluencies and their sequences are sandwiched with periods of fluent speech in the course of speech production. Self-repairs, filled and silent pauses, and instances of hesitation lengthening were annotated in a subcorpus of the “Russian Pears Chats and Stories” (RUPEX). A distribution-oriented typology of disfluencies was proposed that distinguishes between isolated disfluencies, disfluency clusters, and quasiclusters. We claim that disfluency tokens tend to cluster, as isolated occurrences are significantly less frequent in our data than it could have been expected basing on the relative frequency of tokens. This finding contradicts previous studies that treated disfluency clusters as a more marginal phenomenon, ...
Chapter 6. The Moscow approach to local discourse structure
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language, 2020
Correspondent Member of the RAS Vladimir Mikhailovich Alpatov (On the 70 th Birthday)
Chapter 1. Russian spoken discourse
Based on data from the multimedia subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, the paper addresses s... more Based on data from the multimedia subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, the paper addresses syntactic, sematic and prosodic features of the particular type of quotations with the reporting frame headed by the subordinator kak 'as' (kak skazal mne staryj rab pered tavernoj…). Our data show mixed evidence regarding the parenthetical status of the construction. On the one hand, typically for parentheticals, its function is clearly pragmatized, since it expresses speaker's attitude towards the quote. On the other hand, typical parentheticals have only loose syntactic connection with their "host", while the kak-phrase is introduced by the subordinator and has the form of the standard adverbial clause. Further on, while typical parentheticals are characterized by grammatical and prosodic reduction, grammatical and prosodic restrictions operating in the kak-phrase are optional and context (e.g., word order) sensitive. The kind of data we present supports the approach to parenthesis that doesn't favor either/or decisions, but rather is based on multifactorial analysis that considers the whole range of possible parameters and isolates their observed language-specific clusters.
Reported Speech Through the Lens of Corpus Data
Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2018
Typological Studies in Language, 2010
Placeholders (PH, other possible terms-"lexical fillers", "oblitive nouns/verbs") are special hes... more Placeholders (PH, other possible terms-"lexical fillers", "oblitive nouns/verbs") are special hesitation markers mainly of pronominal origin that signal production difficulties and serve as a preparatory substitute for a delayed constituent in spontaneous informal spoken discourse. A PH may fully or partially mirror the grammatical shaping of its target, as in (1), where the proximal demonstrative pronoun eti is used as a PH exactly replicating the ACC.PL form of the target noun pirožny-e 'cakes-ACC.PL'.
External Possession, Reflexivization and Body Parts in Russian
Typological Studies in Language, 1999
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