Плеонастические причастия в современной русской речи: функции и тенденции развития

Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований. 2023. Т. 19. № 1. С. 138–192.

Ю. М. Кувшинская, Н. А. Зевахина

The paper studies tendencies in the use of full single (i.e. without their arguments)  redundant participles in the attributive position in the Russian written discourse. Relying upon the data of the Russian National Corpus and the Corpus of Russian Student Texts, as well as a number of the examples collected from various written sources, the main types of the use of redundant participles and their semantic, grammatical, pragmatic, communicative effects are described.  The first type is a redundant use of participles that function anaphorically, that is they refer to a chunk of the previous discourse. The second type is an unnecessary realization of appositive participles that explicate the presupposed information conveyed by the main clause. The third type is a violation of information structure in appositive participles that either convey new information or actualize information already introduced in the previous discourse. The fourth type is a redundant quantification realized via the use of participles derived from verbs such as suščestvovat’, imet’sja ‘exist’. The use of redundant participles to express definiteness, aspectual and taxic meanings is discussed as well. The paper examines the reasons that underlie these various linguistic phenomena, , including the interference of strategies of organization of oral and written discourses, the influence of official business speech. Moreover, many cases of redundant participles are formed from stable word combinations (collocations). The speaker uses such pre-existing phrases that are (semi) automatically available to him. The authors propose to consider the use of pleonastic participles as a manifestation of grammaticalization

Keywords: квантификация, разговорная речь, information structure, причастие, анафора, collocations, quantification, participle, коллокации, anaphora, definiteness, коммуникативная структура, oral speech, определенность/неопределенность, нестандартная речь, non-standard uses

Publication based on the results of: Standard and Non-standard Russian Speech: Consistency and Variability (2023)