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Edited book | Studi di linguistica slava
Chapter | Ni chrena v ètom ne razbirajus’

Ni chrena v ètom ne razbirajus’

Minimizers volgari ed eufemistici come marche a polarità negativa in russo

Abstract

The study aims to identify in relation with language use the factors accounting for grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of ‘niVMGEN’-constructions involving vulgar and euphemistic minimizers (ni chrena (ne), ni figa (ne), etc), which have been reanalyzed into negative polarity items.The outcome of the grammaticalization process is a typically univerbated lexical unit that expresses emphatic negation and operates at the negative pole increasing the pragmatic impact of the utterance. The contrastive approach highlights similarities in the use of minimizers between Russian and Italian, putting a spotlight on links among different cognitive domains such as negation, quantification and intensification.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: April 16, 2019 | Accepted: May 16, 2019 | Published Dec. 18, 2019 | Language: it

Keywords Taboo words • Evaluation • Negative polarity items • Minimizers • Iintensification • Negation

Copyright © 2019 Valentina Benigni. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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