Russian Adversative Conjunctions under Asymmetric Relativisation

DOI

10.2991/ipc-16.2017.130How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Russian, adversative conjunctions, relativisation, resumptive pronouns, unmarkedness.

Abstract

We point out the differences between the Russian conjunctions i 'and', a and no 'but' as regards their ability to conjoin relative clauses: a is unacceptable if relativisation takes place across-the-board, but is grammatical if the second conjunct contains a resumptive pronoun in the trace position. We explain the contrast by suggesting that a requires its conjuncts to be syntactically as close to full-fledged predications as possible.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Daniel Tiskin
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Russian Adversative Conjunctions under Asymmetric Relativisation
BT  - Proceedings of the 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 534
EP  - 538
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ipc-16.2017.130
DO  - 10.2991/ipc-16.2017.130
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