TY - CHAP A1 - Verbuk, Anna T1 - Russian predicative clefts : tensions between semantics and pragmatics T2 - Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10 : 10th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, October 13 - 15, 2005, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin; ZASPil Vol. 44 N2 - Russian predicate cleft constructions have the surprising property of being associated with adversative clauses of the opposite polarity. I argue that clefts are associated with adversative clauses because they have the semantics of S-Topics in Büring's (1997, 2000) sense of the term. It is shown that the polarity of the adversative clause is obligatorily opposed to that of the cleft because the use of a cleft gives rise to a relevance-based pragmatic scale. The ordering principle according to which these scale KW - Relevanz KW - Formale Semantik KW - Polarität KW - Adversativsatz KW - Spaltsatz KW - Thema-Rhema-Gliederung KW - Russisch Y1 - 2006 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30987 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309873 UR - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/188.html SN - 1435-9588 SN - 0947-7055 VL - 44 SP - 389 EP - 403 PB - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung CY - Berlin ER -