Автономные дистрибутивные конструкции с вопросительно-относительными местоимениями в русском языке

Вопросы языкознания. 2022. № 4. С. 115–142.

Apresyan V., Kopotev M.

The paper is devoted to one type of Russian distributive constructions with two interrogative
pronouns, such as kto kuda lit. “who where”, kto o čëm lit. “who about what”, kogda kak lit. “when
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how”, which bear the meaning ‘different Xs are characterized by different Ys’. We discovered that the
constructions without a predicate in the right context form a special type, which differs both from indirect distributive questions and quasi-relatives in their semantic, pragmatic, syntactic, and communicative properties. Based on corpus data, we show their historical development and modern usage, as well
as describe the most frequent lexical variables which fill the construction. The conclusion is that the
frequency, syntactic features, and degree of idiomatization have their own semantic, communicative,
and pragmatic grounds.
 

Keywords: русский язык, semantics, семантика, прагматика, pragmatics, construction, Russian language, дистрибутив, конструкция, interrogative pronouns, distributive, phraseme, вопросительное местоимение, фразема