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.
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Хотя и для раннего восточнославянского и для современного русского языков характерен относительно свободный порядок слов, и распределение, и функции порядка слов в раннем восточнославянском существенно отличаются от свойственных современному русскому языку. Данная статья посвящена анализу порядка слов в Хождении игумена Даниила; этот текст распадается на путеводитель и нарратив. В путеводителе бытийные глаголы, а также глаголы положения в пространстве и движения чаще появляются в порядке VS и, в целом, порядок VS(O) является наиболее частым, хотя глаголы-связки и переходные глаголы встречаются преимущественно в порядке SV(O). При заданной фразовой структуре менее частый порядок появляется в специфически мотивированных контекстах. В нарративной части—в сравнении с путеводителем—наблюдается более высокая пропорция SV(O) предложений и транзитивных глаголов.
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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Inaugural Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society in Bloomington, Indiana in September 2006. I would like to thank Johanna Nichols, Alan Timberlake, and Viktor Zhivov for reviewing multiple drafts of this paper.
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McAnallen, J. The competing roles of SV(O) and VS(O) word orders in Xoždenie igumena Daniila . Russian Linguistics 33, 211–228 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-009-9039-6
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