Classificazione azionale del lessico russo: un paragone con l’italiano [Акциональная классификация русской лексики в ее сопоставлении с итальянской]

Abstract

This paper introduces an Actional classification of Russian verbs, based on verbal clusters ( Janda 2007, 2008) instead of binary oppositions, and compares it with the Actional classification of Italian verbs developed by Bertinetto (1987, 1997 ss.). This type of approach presupposes syntactical testing of Actional features (telicity, durativity, stativity etc.) of all Russian verbal stems, regardless of their possible attribution to aspectual pairs, and further, their grouping into clusters of lexically derived verbs. The comparison is thus drawn between single Italian verbs and Russian verbal clusters. The contrastive analysis is illustrated with the results of a linguistic test carried out at the Saint-Petersburg State University.