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Maiko, Tatsiana

Konstruktsii s opornym glagolom v russkom i ital'yanskom yazykakh = Support Verb Constructions : a Russian-Italian Contrastive Analysis

2022 - Firenze University Press

221 p.

  • The monograph focuses on a special type of collocations–Support, or Light, Verb Constructions (SVCs). SVCs consist of a semantically reduced verb together with a noun (as the direct object or embedded in a prepositional phrase) that conveys core lexical meaning to the combination. SVCs often vary cross-linguistically, with languages using different strategies to conceptualize the same denotative situations. This study in line with the principles of the Integrated Contrastive Model, aims firstly to offer a corpus-driven contrastive cognitive-semantic description of SVCs in Russian and Italian based on the Construction Grammar model; and secondly to conduct a Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis of the use of Russian SVCs by Italian-speaking students. The findings of this study, in addition to its theoretical significance, may be useful in teaching Russian as a foreign language and could be of interest for lexicography.
  • Tatsiana Maiko is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Mediation of the University of Milan. She obtained a master's degree in Languages and Cultures for International Communication and Cooperation and a PhD in Slavistics from the University of Milan. Her main research interests include second language acquisition, learner corpus research, phraseology, and corpus linguistics. [Publisher's text]