Prominence phenomena in Slavic languages
(B01)
Subject Area
General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
Term
from 2017 to 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281511265
In phase I we established that certain impersonal construc¬tions (the so-called no/ to construction, the reflexive impersonal and the 3pl impersonal in Russian, Polish and Serbo-Croatian) are judged more acceptable when they have more prominent agents. Based on the hypothesis that features of discourse prominence (topicality, recency, etc.) render these constructions less acceptable, we now investigate the interaction between agent prominence and discourse prominence.
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