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Gastvortrag von Dr. Egbert Fortuin

Am 16. Dezember 2010 sprach Dr. Egbert Fortuin von der Universität Leiden am Slavischen Seminar zum Thema: "Russian conditional clauses without conditional conjunction".

Inhalt: The paper provides a semantic analysis of the paratactic conditional perfective present construction (PCPPC) in Russian. This is a conditional construction without a conditional conjunction (subordinator) which contains a perfective present or perfective future tense in the protasis. It is examined whether, and how, this paratactic (asyndetic) conditional construction differs from hypotactic conditional constructions. Furthermore, the question is addressed as to how one can explain the difference in meaning between the PCPPC and other conditional constructions. On the basis of corpus data, a number of specific usage types or semantic features is distinguished which are typical for the PCPPC and absent with hypotactic conditional constructions. It is argued that these features can be explained with reference to general linguistic principles such as iconicity and economy of communication, and frequency of use.