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THE ADVERB ODNAZDY: AN INDEFI NITE TEMPORAL SPECIFI ER
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THE ADVERB ODNAZDY: AN INDEFI NITE TEMPORAL SPECIFI ER
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S0373-658X0000375-5-
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Authors
Lidija Iordanskaja  Igor Mel’čuk
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Issue 1
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22-37
Abstract
We propose a lexicographic description of the two lexemes of the adverb ODNAZDY 'once, one day': the quantitative ODNAZDY1 (On byl tam tol'ko odnazdy 'He has been there only once') and the temporal pronominal ODNAZDY2 (Sel on odnazdy domoj iz skoly 'One day he was walking home from school'). Similarly to weakly indefi nite pronouns (such as KOE-CTO ? 'something'), ODNAZDY2 [Q] has the following characteristic: the corresponding referents - the time of the fact Q and the fact Q itself - are non-identifi able for the Addressee. Q's non-identifi ability is specifi ed in terms of three properties of its referent: optionality (e.g., suicide - as opposed to death), repeatability (e.g., a heart attack - as opposed to suicide), and triviality (e.g., a visit to the movies - as opposed to a heart attack); if the referent lacks at least one of these properties, the use of ODNAZDY2 in the corresponding sentence is ungrammatical (*Odnazdy ona pokoncila zizn' samoubijstvom 'One day she committed suicide': a suicide is optional, but non-repeatable and non-trivial).
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time, determinacy, lexicography, adverbs, uncertainty, predicate plurality, Russian language, semantics
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