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The ‘potential reading’ in Russian

‘Потенциальное значение’ в русском языке

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В статье рассматривается так называемое потенциальное значение русского совершенного и несовершенного вида. Эта интерпретация возможна как при отсутствии модальных слов, так и вне специфических модальных конструкций. Предполагается, что потенциальное значение можно определить, учитывая семантику вида и прагматические принципы. Сравнение этого недискретного выражения потенциальности с его выражением с помощью модальных глаголов разъясняет модальный потенциал грамматического вида. Доказывается, что категория вида не компенсирует отсутствие систем модальных глаголов, так как совершенные и несовершенные предикаты сами по себе выражают только динамическую, а не деонтическую или эпистемическую модальность.

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    Barbara Sonnenhauser  (Барбара Зонненхаузер)

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Parts of this paper have been presented at the panel “Modality in Slavic” at AATSEEL 2007 in Chicago. I would like to thank the organiser of the panel, Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, for having made me think about the potential reading, and the German Research Foundation DFG for providing me with a travel grant.

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Sonnenhauser, B. The ‘potential reading’ in Russian. Russian Linguistics 32, 185–201 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-008-9028-1

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