Development of Evaluative Semantics in Russian Adjectives. The Case of Soviet Political Discourse.
The subject of this paper is the semantics of noun phrases (adjective+noun combinations) used in Soviet Russian political discourse. The study has the following objectives: 1) to reveal the semantics of certain types of noun phrases, and the internal relations in them, i.e., the laws and patterns of...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Slavic Linguistics Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 161 - 172 |
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Indiana University, Slavic Department
2003
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