TY - BOOK AU - Apresjan,Valentina AU - Bychkova,Polina AU - Endresen,Anna AU - Gurin,Grigory AU - Janda,Laura A. AU - Kopotev,Mikhail AU - Kwon,Kyongjoon AU - Markasova,Elena AU - Mel’čuk,Igor AU - Rakhilina,Ekaterina AU - Zhukova,Valentina TI - Constructions with Lexical Repetitions in East Slavic T2 - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , SN - 9783111164120 U1 - 491.7 23//eng/20240724eng PY - 2024///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Slavic languages, Eastern KW - Syntax KW - Idiomatische Konstruktionen KW - Lexikalische Wiederholung KW - Ostslawische Sprachen KW - Tautologie KW - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General KW - bisacsh KW - East Slavonic Languages KW - Idiomatic Constructions KW - Lexical Repetitions KW - Repetition KW - Tautology N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; 1 East is East? Repetitions and reduplications in Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian --; 2 Predicative constructions with lexical repetitions in East Slavic languages: Roots and causes --; 3 Typology of reduplication in Russian: Constructions within and beyond a single clause --; 4 The Russian reduplicative construction of the gudit-gudit lit. ‘It rumbles-rumbles’ type: A syntactic idiom --; 5 Converging parallel paths: Reduplication and Topicalization in the development of durak durakom --; 6 Concessive-adversative reduplication of interrogative pronouns in Slavic languages --; 7 Kak že kak že! Russian discourse formula of confirmation as a marker of recognition --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Repetition is a well-studied phenomenon in morphology and lexicology but has received less attention on the syntactic level. The book sheds light on syntactic constructions with lexical repetition in East Slavic languages. Several contributions address syntactic constructions that have developed in form and meaning in accordance with general tendencies found in many languages, for example, English Boys will be boys. However, most chapters focus on constructions that resist typological explanation, for example Rus. Беда так беда ‘trouble- nom.sg so trouble- nom.sg’, Ukr. дурень дурнем ‘fool- nom.sg fool- ins.sg’. UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111165806 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111165806 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111165806/original ER -