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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   THE “CIRCONSTANTS” IN A SECOND-LEVEL PREDICATION IN RUSSIAN / LE CIRCONSTANT DE SECONDE PRÉDICATION EN RUSSE.

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  Abstract:  The “Circonstants” in a Second-Level Predication in Russian. “Circonstants” or “adverbials”, however they are called, have always been defined negatively: all studies show what they are not. In this paper another definition of “circonstants” is given as a spatio-temporal and causal framework in which the utterance will be correct, and the author considers that the “circonstant” is not a complement. When the “circonstant” is at the beginning of the utterance, it is its Theme, whether known or not by the addressee, but it is given as a spatio-temporal frame; when it is at the end of a clause, it is not very easy to know whether the prepositional phrase is a verb complement or a “circonstant”. Anyway, there are a lot of sentences which are said only to give the spatial or temporal “circumstances” of an event and the “circonstant” is the exclusive Rheme of such clauses. This paper also shows that prepositional phrases which seem to be noun complements are in fact “circonstants” in a second-level predication.

Keywords: Russian language, “circonstant”, Theme and Rheme, noun complements, verb complements, second-level predication 

 
         
     
         
         
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