a question about non-standard Russian
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Thu Apr 12 11:51:14 UTC 2001
>Hello,
> I wonder if someone on this list will help me
>regarding vernacular Russian.
> I am currently engaged in editing stenogrammes, recorded
>at a workers' meeting that took place in Petrograd in January 1918,
>and have come across several cases of a redundant pronoun in the
>nominative case:
> Takoj obshirnyj gromadnyj apparat on dolzhen byl imet' trenija,..
>
> Eti organizacii, kotoryja rodilis' pri byvshem uzhe otchasti
> kapitalisticheskom stroe, one v pervuju ochered' postavili
> svoej zadachej ob"edinenie rachochikh sil, konechno, v
> bor'be za uluchshenie svoego ekonomicheskago polozhenija.
>
>I looked in the grammar book wondering if there were explanations,
>but no reference at all. I am familiar with this kind of redundant
>pronoun in English on the British Isles and have a preconception
>that this truly records what the speaker actually said.
> Any pointers to good reference books are welcome. Thanks.
O.B.Sirotinina in "Sovremennaja razgovornaja rech' i ee osobennosti"
(Moscow, Prosveshchenie 1974) discusses the pleonastic use of pronouns on
p. 112.
Best,
Alina
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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University phone: (202) 885-2387
4400 Mass. Ave., NW fax: (202) 885-1076
Washington, DC 20016
aisrael at american.edu
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