Abstract
This article considers Russian onomatopoeic verbal interjections due to the fact that these linguistic units possess a unique grammatical feature of being either completely syntactically independent or act as members of sentence, depending on the context and speaker’s communicative intention. Moreover, there is ambiguity concerning their expressiveness. In some cases they are prosodically foregrounded and have reduplicated morphemes, in others no pauses in speech separate them from the host construction and no expressive morphology is demonstrated. This research aims at establishing correlation between prosodic/morphological expressiveness and syntactic independence of Russian onomatopoeic verbal interjections with the help of a statistical model. Firstly, corpus analysis of data from the Russian Corpus of Spoken Language is applied examine expressiveness of these linguistic units, as well as to investigate their syntactic independence. Finally, a Log-Linear Statistical Model is applied to establish dependencies between absence/presence of these three features and to determine which ones of them have significant correlations.
Highlights
The controversy concerning the interjection as a part of speech has continued unabated for half a century
Due to the complexity of such linguistic units as Russian onomatopoeic verbal interjections, they have been considerably neglected in linguistic theory
To date little is known about the connection between the nature of onomatopoeic verbal interjections and their syntactic representation; it remains unclear what factors influence the choice of punctuation marks used with them
Summary
The controversy concerning the interjection as a part of speech has continued unabated for half a century. 16 Poljarnyj vestnik 21, 2018 been referred to as “interjectional predicates” (Kor Chahine 2008), “verboids” (Nikitina 2012), “onomatopoeic interjections” (Viimaranta et al, 2016) They have been described in the 1980 Russian Grammar as “verbal interjections” To date little is known about the connection between the nature of onomatopoeic verbal interjections and their syntactic representation; it remains unclear what factors influence the choice of punctuation marks used with them. It has been established though, that in those cases where they are not separated from the host construction by punctuation marks, they have a predicative function, i.e. become syntactically integrated (Kanerva and Viimaranta 2018).
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