The syntactic distribution of the Russian discourse particle eto

Student: Erbalanov Aldan

Supervisor: Tatiana Philippova

Educational Programme: Linguistic Theory and Language Description (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

In this paper we have analyzed the syntactic status of the Russian discourse particle ETO in wh-questions, using a corpus study (in a wide sense). We have shown that the correct analysis distinguishes between the pronoun ETO (prepositive) and the focus-like particle ETO (postpositive).

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