The Northern Russian pragmatic particle dak in the dialect of Varzuga (Kola Peninsula). An information structuring device in informal spontaneous speech

• Main Author: Post, Margje
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2006
• Subjects: VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Allmenn språkvitenskap og fonetikk: 011; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Russisk språk: 028; russisk språk; Kolahalvøya; dialekt; partikkel (lingivstikk); pragmatikk; White Sea; Kola Peninsula; Varzuga; kola peninsula
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/246

The Northern Russian pragmatic particle dak presents a good case of how particles are used to structure information in informal language. It exemplifies that connectives can mark relations to concepts lacking a concrete linguistic form. The research presented here is based on a sound corpus of the d...