title: THE RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTION CHTO X, CHTO Y: ISSUES IN ITS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Tiskin, Daniel B.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-03-03T17:29:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-03-03T17:29:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063183.18
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39273
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The Russian coordinative construction chto X, chto Y ‘whether X or Y; both X and Y’ merits
  attention for several reasons: first, due to the absence of systematic corpus-based studies
  of its use; second, due to the lack of clarity as to the composition of its meaning from
  those of its parts, including chto itself, which has a multitude of uses in Russian; and finally,
  due to the complexity of the relations between the multiple uses of chto. This paper
  undertakes a quantitative study of the construction in the main corpus of the Russian
  National Corpus, establishing the emergence of purely conjunctive uses on a par with pre-existing free choice uses and embedded alternative question uses, which appear to
  be going out of use. Further, I interpret free choice uses as an instance of the unconditional
  (concessive conditional) construction known from the literature to be segmented
  into two clausal parts and to involve no overt conditional complementiser, just as Russian
  uses in question behave. Basing on this observation, I suggest that the three kinds of uses
  share the same semantics of the construction, i. e. the alternative set {X, Y}, and show
  how the meanings of three requisite types can be derived from it. Finally, the connection
  between chto and alternative set formation calls for a new look on the relation between
  pronominal and complementiser uses of chto where the emergence of the latter is mediated
  by a stage at which the pronominal chto occupies a projection associated with
  clausal polarity. Refs 20.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Исследование выполнено при поддержке РНФ, проект № 19-78-10048,
  https://lexicalrepetitions.com.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: St. Petersburg University Studies in Social Sciences & Humanities;Volume 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: alternative semantics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: free choice semantics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: coordination
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: concessive conditional
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: THE RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTION CHTO X, CHTO Y: ISSUES IN ITS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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