Structure métainformative de l’énoncé et choix de la forme de l’adjectif qualificatif après dva (dve), tri et četyre en russe littéraire classique et contemporain Metainformative Structure of the Utterance and Choice of the Form of the Adjective after dva, tri and četyre Used in Subject Position in Modern Literary Russian

摘要

Metainformative Structure of the Utterance and Choice of the Form of the Adjective after dva, tri and četyre. Used in Subject Position in Modern Literary Russian Among the numerous morphosyntactic problems posed by numerals in Modern Literary Russian, the choice between the nominative plural and the genitive plural for the form of the adjective after dva, tri and četyre in subject position is particularly intriguing. The purpose of this paper is to show that the competition between these two forms, which can hardly be satisfactorily justified from a pure synchronical point of view, can easily be explained historically by the confusion of two syntactic constructions (Exali dva donskie kazaka vs. [ Kazakov] exalo dva donskix kazaka), once clearly distinct and used for different pragmatic purposes.