Two echelons in the semantics of the Russian verbal aspect and their interaction with lexical meanings (illustrated by the verb ugodit’ – ugozhdat’)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-7-101-139
Abstract
The work was carried out in line with the research on the nature of the semantic unity of a verb which is important for applied areas of computational linguistics, namely, text generation and humaniform robots. For Russian, the verbal aspect pairs are also included into the concept of the verb polysemy. This article presents the results of the semantic study of the Russian aspect resulting in representing the aspect meanings as a two-echelons system. The upper echelon consists of four supra-contextual aspect meanings. They are found with the aim to be included into the explanatory dictionary matched with the lexical meanings of the verb. Results of a corpus study of meanings of the verb ugodit’ – ugozhdat’ and their interaction with the supra-contextual aspect meanings are presented.
Keywords
semantics,
verbal ambiguity,
values of the aspect category in Russian language,
the explanatory dictionary
Supporting agencies: The work was partially supported by RFBR: project No. 17-04-00594: «RUSLAN, the semantic dictionary for Russian languge processing: modernization and expansion».
About the Author
E. G. SokolovaRussian Federation
Elena G. Sokolova – Cand. of Sci. (Philology)
Moscow
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Sokolova E.G. Two echelons in the semantics of the Russian verbal aspect and their interaction with lexical meanings (illustrated by the verb ugodit’ – ugozhdat’). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;21(7):101-139. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-7-101-139
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