The study aims to identify, in relation with language use, the factors accounting for grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of ‘niVMGEN’-constructions involving vulgar and euphemistic minimizers (ni chrena (ne), ni figa (ne), etc), which have been reanalysed into negative polarity items. The outcome of the grammaticalization process is a typically univerbated lexical unit that expresses emphatic negation and operates at the negative pole increasing the pragmatic impact of the utterance. The contrastive approach highlights similarities in the use of minimizers between Russian and Italian, putting a spotlight on links among different cognitive domains such as negation, quantification and intensification.
Benigni, V. (2019). Ni chrena v ètom ne razbirajus’. Minimizers volgari ed eufemistici come marche a polarità negativa in russo. In S.N. Iliyana Krapova (a cura di), Studi di linguistica slava - Nuove prospettive e metodologie di ricerca (pp. 37-52). Venezia : Edizioni Ca' Foscari [10.30687/978-88-6969-368-7/002].
Ni chrena v ètom ne razbirajus’. Minimizers volgari ed eufemistici come marche a polarità negativa in russo
Benigni, Valentina
2019-01-01
Abstract
The study aims to identify, in relation with language use, the factors accounting for grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of ‘niVMGEN’-constructions involving vulgar and euphemistic minimizers (ni chrena (ne), ni figa (ne), etc), which have been reanalysed into negative polarity items. The outcome of the grammaticalization process is a typically univerbated lexical unit that expresses emphatic negation and operates at the negative pole increasing the pragmatic impact of the utterance. The contrastive approach highlights similarities in the use of minimizers between Russian and Italian, putting a spotlight on links among different cognitive domains such as negation, quantification and intensification.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
