God Knows How It Turns Out: On Three Constructions Including Bog ‘God’, Čert ‘Devil’ and Some Taboo Words in the Russian Language Over the Last Three Centuries

Evgeniya Budennaya; Kristina Litvintseva; Anastasia Yakovleva

doi:10.2478/jazcas-2023-0020

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God Knows How It Turns Out: On Three Constructions Including Bog ‘God’, Čert ‘Devil’ and Some Taboo Words in the Russian Language Over the Last Three Centuries

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

Volume 74 (2023): Issue 1 (June 2023)

By: Evgeniya Budennaya, Kristina Litvintseva and Anastasia Yakovleva

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|Dec 2023

Abstract

The constructions with the anchor [Noun-Nom Verb (meaning ‘to know’)] are very productive in Russian. In this article we show that variables such as Bog ‘God’, čert ‘devil’ and xer/xren ‘X/horseradish’ have some common patterns, as well as some shifts with exclusive patterns in semantics and constructionalization.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0020 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4287 | Journal ISSN: 0021-5597

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Language: English

Page range: 19 - 31

Published on: Dec 25, 2023

Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics

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