title: About the history of indefinite pronouns: quasi-relative constructions with ni budi and ni jest’ in 17th–18th century Russian language
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metadata.value: Penkova, Yana A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-09-03T19:38:40Z
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metadata.value: 2021-09-03T19:38:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Penkova Ya. A. About the history of indefinite pronouns: quasi-relative constructions with ni budi and ni jest’ in 17th–18th century Russian language. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 114–137.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2021.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33061
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article deals with quasi-relative constructions with ni budi/ ni jest’, which were competing
  in 17th‒18th century Russian language and claiming the role of an unspecific indefinite marker.
  This competition resulted in the victory of the ni budi-construction and grammaticalization
  of the formant nibud’ in modern Russian. The research was carried out on data taken from
  the historical module of the Russian National Corpus, as well as from a subcorpus of 18th
  century texts within the main corpus. Quasi-relative constructions are compared according to
  the following parameters: frequency, semantic distribution, degree of phraseologization and
  stylistic features. In the 17th century texts, both constructions show low frequency and occur
  in a limited range of sources: mainly in documents, as well as in some chronicles and everyday
  communication. In this period, the grammaticalization process was not complete for both
  constructions. In 18th century texts, the frequency of quasi-relative constructions with ni budi,
  unlike ni jest’, sharply increases. Constructions with ni budi (nibud’) penetrate into various
  functional domains of literary language, including church literature. Constructions with ni
  jest’, on the contrary, were preserved in the 18th century language only as marginal archaisms.
  The semantics of quasi-relative constructions with ni budi in the period in question differed
  from nibud’ pronouns in modern Russian. The latter significantly narrowed their semantic
  scope, having lost the ability to be used as free-choice markers.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 18; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of the Russian language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: indefinite pronouns
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: grammaticalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: quasirelative constructions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian National Corpus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: About the history of indefinite pronouns: quasi-relative constructions with ni budi and ni jest’ in 17th–18th century Russian language
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metadata.value: Article
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