The category of directionality in Russian paired verbs of motion (a case study of LETETʹ / LETATʹ)


2020. №1, 27-64

Lidija N. Iordanskaja а
Svetlana G. Krylosova b, @
Igor A. Mel’čuk а
Polina A. Mikhel’ c
а Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada;
b INALCO, Paris, France;
c Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France;
@ svetlana.krylosova@gmail.com

Abstract:

The object of the study is the set of Russian determinate / indeterminate motion verbs (of the LETETʹ / LETATʹ ‘fly’ type). A full-fl edged lexicographic description of the LETETʹ / LETATʹ pair is proposed; its analysis leads to the formulation of the semantic difference between the members of determinate / indeterminate motion verb pairs. This difference is described by means of an infl ectional verbal category — the category of directionality (napravlennostʹ). Accordingly, the members of a determinate / indeterminate motion verb pair are considered to be infl ectional forms of one lexeme; consequently, they can be presented in one lexicographic entry.

For citation:

Iordanskaja L. N., Krylosova S. G., Mel’čuk I. A., Mikhel’ P. A. The category of directionality in Russian paired verbs of motion (a case study of LETETʹ / LETATʹ). Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2020, 1: 27–64.