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[John Dunn]

On the question of participles it is, I think, useful to distinguish between participles, which are endowed with specific grammatical properties, and what I used to annoy my students with by calling quasi-participial adjectives.  The latter may look more or less like participles, but function as common or garden adjectives.  Неотделимый [Neotdelimyj] is undoubtedly a QAP, as are висячий, падший, жареный [visjachij, padshij, zharenyj] and, when used as in the following sentence, воспитанный [vospitannyj]:

Она очень воспитанна [Ona ochen' vospitanna].

John Dunn.


John Dunn
Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies)
University of Glasgow, Scotland

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