Destructive verbs with defective paradigms in the Russian language
The subject of this research are verbs with destructive semantics in the Russian language, which are characterized by a paradigmatic defect. Verbs with a destructive meaning form one of the most numerous subgroups within the group of verbs with a paradigmatic defect. The semantic category o...
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| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Južnoslovenski Filolog |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2023/0350-185X2301159K.pdf |
| Summary: | The subject of this research are verbs with destructive semantics in the
Russian language, which are characterized by a paradigmatic defect. Verbs
with a destructive meaning form one of the most numerous subgroups within
the group of verbs with a paradigmatic defect. The semantic category of
destructiveness, which denotes it in the broadest sense, has not yet
received a comprehensive description in linguistics. A paradigmatic
(systemic) defect is caused by a semantic mismatch between a certain
grammeme and the lexical meaning of the lexeme. The given verbs have a
two-part paradigm, and the impossibillity of using them in the other persons
most often happens due to semantic barriers. They denote an action that is
not related to a person as the doer of the action, but most often represents
processes, states, and phenomena characteristic of the animal or plant
world, etc. А verb of destructiveness denotes an action with the meaning of
“decomposition”, “deterioration”. Within the group of verbs with such
semantics, we distinguished several subgroups: (1) verbs with the meaning of
“spoil”; (2) verbs with the meaning of “disappear”; (3) verbs with the
meaning of destruction, disintegration and (4) verbs with the meaning “to
cause damage”, “to damage”. As the semantics of destructiveness primarily
refers to phenomena or objects, there is almost no need to use other persons
within the paradigm of these verbs. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-185X 2406-0763 |