Псевдопосесивни конструкции (у + родителен падеж) в руския език и техните български паралели.
Pseudo-possessive constructions (u + genitive) in Russian and their Bulgarian parallels

Author(s): Galina Ivanovna Kustova , Elena Yu. Ivanova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexis, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages, Translation Studies
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: possessor; possessive constructions; pseudo-possessivity; agentivity; translation equivalents
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses different types of situations in which the possessive group u + genitive is used to encode the subject. In Russian, such a group can be a marker of a wide range of subjects, including possessor (У него две собаки ‘He has two dogs’); experiencer subject of internal states (У меня было чувство/подозрение, что Р ‘I had a feeling/suspicion’), subject of involvement (У нас пожар ‘At our place we have a fire’; У него обыск ‘They conduct a search at his place’; У меня чайник перегорел ‘My kettle got burnt’), agent referent in situations with suppressed or lost control (У меня встреча ‘I have a meeting’; У меня мотор не заводится ‘My motor does not start’). Due to the coding of the subject by the u-group, all such situations receive a pseudo-possessive conceptualization. The Bulgarian correspondences to these Russian constructions have been analysed on the material from the parallel corpus.

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