Narrative Inversion, Topicality and Referentiality in Russian

Student: Rakhman Denis

Educational Programme: Linguistic Theory and Language Description (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

This paper investigates the semantics of narrative inversion sentenses in Russian. We argue that such V1 sentenses are thetic and that their covert event argument is topicalized. We have shown that SLP-only constraint, certain referential restrictions put on a subject and other specific traits of such clauses can be successfully analysed in terms of event semantics framework.

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