Working title: “Threat in Russian – a constructional perspective”
Supervisors: Tore Nesset, Laura A. Janda
Summary:
My research project is at the intersection of two larger projects: the Threat-Defuser (https://threat-defuser.org) and the Russian constructicon (https://constructicon.github.io/russian/). This study aims to investigate the Russian constructions of performing threats such as po-Verb-Imp eščë (mne/u menja)! — Pogovori mne eščë! ‘Don’t you dare talking like this!’. The first part of the study is based on a relatively small set of 27 constructions in Russian. A threat is defined as a promise performed by a threatener to harm another person — a threatenee. The constructions of threat in Russian typically include up to three components: the content of threat, the cause of threat and the consequence of threat. The analysis of constructions is conveyed within the scope of Construction Grammar and Cognitive Linguistics.
Project duration: 2021 – 2025
