Subjunctive in Russian relative clauses

Authors

  • Nina Dobrushina State University Higher School of Economics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/osla.124

Abstract

The paper aims at determining the factors that trigger the choice of subjunctive in relative clauses, where it freely alternates with indicative forms. The factors are established on a basis of frequency of occurrence in Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru) and include the referential status of the noun heading the relative clause, the polarity, semantic type and epistemic status of the main predicate and the affirmative vs. interrogative status of the whole sentence.

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Published

2010-12-22