Predicates of fear and apprehension in Russian can be followed by clauses with a marker of negation that does not alter the truth value of the proposition as in 'Ja bojus’, kak by ne bylo dožd’ja' (I am afraid that it might rain), where it is the possibility of rain that causes the fear and not the contrary. The negative particle ne thus seems superfluous and illogical if the two clauses are assumed to be linked by subordination. This thesis reapplies Jespersen’s insight of paratactic negation (Jespersen 1917) to address this well-known problem of Russian syntax. Corpus-based evidence is presented in support of analyzing clauses with 'kak by' and negation as instantiations of an autonomous, independent-clause construction rather than as embedded complements. By way of corroboration, the historical path along which the construction is likely to have developed is also examined to demonstrate its main-clause origins. While this analysis provides an elegant solution to the problem of negation by removing restrictions stemming from the notion of embeddedness, the precise function of negation is explored within an intersubjective approach (Verhagen 2005). The role of negation in the construction is shown to consist in cognitive coordination whereby the speaker instructs the addressee to entertain two mental representations of an apprehension-causing situation and to adopt the one in which this situation is construed as non-existent through the use of negation.
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机译：俄语中的恐惧和忧虑谓词后面可以加上带有否定标记的子句，这些子句不会改变命题的真值，例如“ Ja bojus”（kak by ne bylodožd'ja）（恐怕可能会下雨） ），而下雨的可能性会引起恐惧，而不是相反。因此，如果假定这两个子句通过从属关系链接，则负粒子ne似乎是多余且不合逻辑的。本论文重新利用了耶斯珀森对形容式否定的见解（耶斯珀森1917年）来解决这个众所周知的俄语语法问题。提出基于语料库的证据来支持带有“ kak by”和否定词的分析子句，这些子句是自主，独立子句构造的实例，而不是嵌入的补语。通过佐证，还考察了该建筑可能沿其发展的历史路径，以证明其主要条款的起源。尽管这种分析通过消除源自嵌入性概念的限制为否定问题提供了一种优雅的解决方案，但否定的精确功能却是在主体间方法中探索的（Verhagen 2005）。否定在构造中的作用表现为认知协调，说话者指示收件人对引起忧虑的情境进行两种心理表征，并采用通过使用以下内容将其解释为不存在的一种心理表现。否定。
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