Article

Name: Uspeem khorosho esli k semi (‘Will Success to Arrive Good if by Seven’): Subordination Decay and Lexicalization of the Contact Frame

Authors: M. Ya. Dymarsky

Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia; Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS

Abstract: The article is devoted to one of Russian “minor type sentences” illustrated in the title. Derivation of the construction is considered, including the processes of 1) retracting the main part of the complex sentence into the subordinate clause; 2) the loss of the function of the contact frame by the complex khorosho esli and its lexicalization as a particle adjacent to the predicate, and at the last stage of lexicalization – to any actant or circonstant. Changing the status of the complex khorosho esli gives rise to the semantic effect of splitting the displayed situation, the establishment of estimation- gradational relations between the variants of the situation, as well as the implicatures that make up the main meaning of the statement as a whole. Prerequisites arise for the formation of new derivative unions (khorosho esli... a to i ... and the like.). The characteristic of the intonation contour is given which obligatorily accompanies the functioning of the particle khorosho esli; the conclusion is substantiated that the grounds for separating the elements of a new particle by a comma disappear.

Keywords: minor type sentences, contact frame of a complex sentence, lexicalization, disintegration of subordination, retraction of the main part into the subordinate clause, implicature, punctuation

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