ПОДЧИНЕНИЕ В НЕСТАНДАРТНОМ КОНТЕКСТЕ: НЕСТАНДАРТНЫЕ ПОДЧИНИТЕЛЬНЫЕ КОНСТРУКЦИИ И ИХ СИНТАКСИЧЕСКИЕ СВОЙСТВА

Русский язык в научном освещении. 2023. № 2(46). С. 139–179.

Letuchiy A.

The article focuses on nonstandard subordinate constructions like I know what my father thinks — I should learn to cook. In these context, the second clause semantically 

fills a valency slot of some head (in this case, the verb thinks), but its syntactic properties are not canonically subordinate. This happens when the form of the clause does not correspond to the argument structure of the head, when the subordinate clause is not in the

same clause as the alleged head and/or if the second clause does not contain any subordination markers. In the article, it is demonstrated that, though the constructions under

analysis differ in their functions and internal organization, they have many common features that distinguish them from standard subordinate constructions. For instance, many

of them occur in several variants, some of which are closer to standard subordination and

some are distinct from it. Besides this, the precise properties of the constructions depend

on semantic and discourse parameters: for example, whether the subject is co-referent to

the speaker and whether deictic interpretation is possible. Importantly, some fundamental

differences between nonstandard and standard subordinate constructions (such as almost

entire impossibility of negation and of subject omission in the second clause) are not reducible to the functions and properties of one individual construction. We rather deal

with a general tendency: in the absence of subordinate markers the communicative

status of the second part increases and it tends to become a separate assertion. At the

same time, there are some differences between constructions: for example, only some of

them allow relative tense interpretation. These differences show that some syntactic

properties depend on the strength of syntactic link between the two clauses, which is different for each of constructions.

Keywords: syntactic subordination, синтаксическое подчинение, binding, связывание, Subject omission, Бессоюзная связь, Опущение субъекта