DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS ‘TOT’ (THAT) AND ‘ETOT’ (THIS) AS COMPONENTS OF TENSE MARKERS

Stoinova, Natal’ya; Paducheva, Elena

PII

S241377150000495-7-1

DOI

10.7868/S0000495-7-1

Publication type

Article

Status

Published

Authors

Natal’ya Stoinova

Elena Paducheva

Volume/ Edition

Volume 76 / Issue 4

Pages

5-17

Abstract

The paper deals with the Russian demonstrative pronouns 'tot' (that) and 'etot' (this) as components of tense markers, such as 'v etom godu' (this year), 'v to leto' (last summer), 'toi zimoi' (last winter), 'na etoi nedele' (this week), etc. Demonstrative pronouns in these contexts can be used either anaphorically ('v tot god' = 'in the year in question') or deictically ('v etom godu' = 'in the current year'). Deictic uses can be either ordinary, with reference to the present ('na etoi nedele' = 'during the current week') or specific - with reference to the past or future ('v etu sredu' = 'last / coming Wednesday'). It turns out that different tense markers reveal different degree of preference to this or that interpretation. The set of available interpretations depends on: a) the type of the pronoun ('v tom godu' = 'last /future /current' year, but 'v etom godu' = 'current /last /future' year); b) morpho-syntactic structure of the tense marker (deictic interpretation for 'v tom godu', Prepositional case = 'last' year, but only anaphoric interpretation for 'v tot god', Accusative case); c) the semantic class of the lexeme expressing the time interval (asetoi nochiu' = 'last' night, but 'v etom godu' = 'in the current' year); d) the concrete lexeme ('etim vecherom' = 'future /last' evening, but 'etim utrom'= 'last /future' morning).

Keywords

demonstrative pronouns, deixis, anaphora, tense modifier

Date of publication

01.07.2017

Year of publication

2017

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1366

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GOST	Paducheva E., Stoinova N. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS ‘TOT’ (THAT) AND ‘ETOT’ (THIS) AS COMPONENTS OF TENSE MARKERS // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka. – 2017. – V. 76. – Issue 4 C. 5-17 .
MLA	Paducheva, Elena, Stoinova, Natal’ya "DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS ‘TOT’ (THAT) AND ‘ETOT’ (THIS) AS COMPONENTS OF TENSE MARKERS." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka. 76.4 (2017).:5-17.
APA	Paducheva E., Stoinova N. (2017). DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS ‘TOT’ (THAT) AND ‘ETOT’ (THIS) AS COMPONENTS OF TENSE MARKERS. Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka. vol. 76, no. 4, pp.5-17

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