Comparison of semantico-pragmatic and syntactic aspects of comissive verbs in Russian, English and German languages

E D Bobrova; Боброва Екатерина Давидовна

Comparison of semantico-pragmatic and syntactic aspects of comissive verbs in Russian, English and German languages

Authors: Bobrova ED¹
Affiliations:
1. Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Issue: No 4 (2010)
Pages: 35-40
Section: Articles
URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/7328

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In this article we analyze semantic and syntactic features of commissives. We compare commissives in the Russian, English and German languages. Our analysis shows that commissives in the Russian and German languages have more common features compared with those in English.

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comissive verbs, comissive speech acts, performative verbs, self-causation of the speaker, syntactic structure, illocutional goal, language, speech, translation, semantics, pragmatics

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E D Bobrova

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Email: kaf_yazik_rudn@mail.ru <mailto:kaf_yazik_rudn@mail.ru>
Кафедра общего и русского языкознанияФилологический факультет; Российский университет дружбы народов; Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

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Vol 15, No 4 (2024)

Comparison of semantico-pragmatic and syntactic aspects of comissive verbs in Russian, English and German languages

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