Коннекторы контактного предшествования в русском и французском языках в зеркале надкорпусной базы данных
The connectors expressing contact precedence in Russian and French as reflected in the super-corpus database

Summary/Abstract: In the paper we analyse connectors of immediate precedence (IP) in Russian and French taking into account other means of encoding taxis in the two languages. We discuss the membership and the structure of the class of IP connectors in each language and describe the patterns of variability of their form. Our analysis of translation equivalents at sentence level shows, that in Russian discourse IP connectors are used more often and they are accompanied more often by adverbials meaning ‘immediately’ in the main clause. We hypothesize that this may be connected with the absence in Russian of such verbal means of encoding the taxis of precedence as passé antériеur and other relative tenses.

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