Auxiliary clitics in Old Russian chronicles

Beáta Györfi

doi:10.5817/LB2023-2-2

Auxiliary clitics in Old Russian chronicles

Vol.71,No.2(2023)

Beáta Györfi

https://doi.org/10.5817/LB2023-2-2

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.79263

PDF

Abstract

Present tense auxiliaries in Old Russian could have different categorial status: they could be perceived as simple auxiliary verbs, as clitics or as weak pronouns. The investigation aims at clarifying this situation relying on corpus studies in the text of chronicles. Problems like the position of perfect auxiliaries relative to their host, their behaviour in clitic clusters, and their relation to pronominal subjects will be looked at. The quantitative and distributional analysis of these forms helps us decide whether these elements actually acted as enclitics, in what proportions, and what position they occupied in clause.

Keywords:
enclitics; auxiliaries; perfect; Old Russian; chronicles; corpus linguistics

Pages:
39–57

References

Březina, Martin. 2023. Syntax of (non)syllabic present tense forms of the verb býti in the 3rd-person singular in Old Czech. To be published.

Franks, Steven. 1999. Clitics in Slavic. In: The Slavic and East European Language Resource Center. <a href=http://seelrc.org/glossos/ target=_blank>http://seelrc.org/glossos/</a> [05.06.2019].

Franks, Steven - King, Tracy Holloway. 2000. A Handbook of Slavic Clitics. Oxford.

Jakobson, Roman. 1971. Les enclitiques slaves. In: Jakobson, Roman. Selected Writings. II. Word and Language. The Hague.

Györfi, Beáta. 2023. Belaja vorona pronominalnyh enklitik: (en)klitika sja v tekste drevne russkih letopisej In: Kategorija jazyka i myshlenija: aspekty sovremennoj interpretacii. Sbornik statej. Petrozavodsk, pp. 57-60.

Hilpert, Martin - Gries, Stefan. 2016. Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics In: Kytö, Merja - Pahta, Päivi, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics. CUP, pp. 36-53.

Jung, Hakyung - Migdalski, Krystof. 2015. Degrammaticalization of pronominal clitics in Slavic In: Szajbel-Keck, Małgorzata - Burns, Roslyn - Kavitskaya, Darya, eds. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The First Berkeley Meeting 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications, pp. 143-162.

Jung, Hakyung. 2020. The be-auxiliary's categorial status in Old Russian. Studia Linguistica. 74(3), pp. 613-644.

Kosta, Peter - Zimmerling, Anton. 2013. Slavic clitics: A typology. STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 66(2), pp. 178-214.

Petruhin, Pavel V. 2008. Diskursivnye funkcii drevnerusskogo pluskvamperfekta (na materiale Kievskoj i Galicko-Volinskoj letopisej) In: Issledovanie po teorii grammatiki. Grammaticheskie kategorii v diskurse. Moskva.

Spencer, Andrew - Luis, Ana R. 2012. Clitics: An Introduction. Cambridge.

Willis, David. 1999. The structure of Old Russian periphrastic verbal constructions In: Kenesei, István, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the Theory of Central and Eastern European Languages. Amsterdam, pp. 45-65.

Zaliznyak, Andrej A. 2008. Drevnerusskie enklitiki. Moskva.

Zaliznyak, Andrej A. 2019. Drevnerusskoe udarenie. Obshchie svedenija i slovar. Moskva.

Zhivov, Viktor M. 1996. Jazyk i kultura v Rossii XVIII. Moskva, pp. 31-41.

Zimmerling, Anton A. 2012. A unified analysis of clitic clusters in world's languages. Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. 11(18), pp. 726-738.

Zwicky, Arnold M. 1977. On Clitics. Bloomington.

Metrics