Местоположение издательства:Eugene, Ore., United States
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Аннотация:This paper is prepared for the XIIIth Annual Conference of the Slavic Linguistics Society, SLS 13 (Eugene, 28-29 September 2018). I discuss the syntax and semantics of clustering discourse particles in Old Russian texts from the XVI-XVII centuries and early XVIII century. The cover term ‘Late Old Russian’ roughly corresponds to the label ‘старорусский’ in the Russian tradition. The empirical and theoretical problem with the data is that t is unclear, to what degree Late Old Russian retained the clustering principle. Russian texts from this period attest both ŽE LI and LI ŽE orders which is an apparent violation of the templatic principle typical for standard word order systems with Wackernagel's law, including Early Old Russian. I argue that Zalizniak’s templatic approach is still applicable to Late Russian texts, but the combination =LI =ŽE could arise in sentences with a focused initial constituent, under the contrastive reading. The reordering deriving the order =LI …=ŽE from the standard templatic order =ŽE = LI, sporadic and rare as it is, is a complex phenomenon, revealing the interplay of the prosody-to-syntax and syntax-to-semantics interfaces.