Variazione delle marche dei nessi semantici interfrastici nel testo russo: parametri, [Параметры варьирования показателей межфразовых семантических связей в русском тексте]

Abstract

In the paper connectors are analyzed as markers of semantic (= rhetorical) relations in discourse. It is demonstrated that Russian connectors vary as to their semantic potential, the direct / indirect way of conveying the semantic relation in question, the restrictions on the discursive rank (nucleus / satellite) of the textual units they connect, on their modality and on their communicative status in terms of theme / rheme and given / new. The latter is shown to underlie the conjunction splitting. Also such formal parameters of connectors’ variation are discussed as their syntactic nature, part of speech they belong to, the degree of freedom measured in terms of variability of their lexico-syntactic structure. Restrictions on the structural variation of phrasal connectors are discussed and some of them explained.