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- Title
The competing roles of SV(O) and VS(O) word orders in Xoždenie igumena Daniila.
- Authors
McAnallen, Julia
- Abstract
Though both Early East Slavic (EES) and Modern Russian have a relatively free word order, the distribution and function of word order in EES is quite distinct from Modern Russian. This paper is a study of word order within a single EES text, Xoždenie igumena Daniila, which is split into two major subdivisions: travel guide and narrative. In the travel guide, existential, stance, and motion verbs occur more frequently in VS order, and VS(O) order is more frequent overall; copular and transitive verbs occur more frequently in SV(O) order. Instances of the less frequent word order for the clause type occur as a result of specific conditioning contexts. The narrative, in contrast, has proportionally more SV(O) clauses and transitive verbs than the travel guide.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; CZECH Republic; WORD order (Grammar); WORD order in modern language; RUSSIAN language; CZECH language; EASTERN Slavic languages
- Publication
Russian Linguistics, 2009, Vol 33, Issue 2, p211
- ISSN
0304-3487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11185-009-9039-6