Descrizione semantico-funzionale delle particelle russe e corpora paralleli

This paper analysesthe use of the Russian functional marker ved’based on the Russian-Italian parallel corpus within the Russian National Corpus. Data show that in over 50% of examplesved’is used to enhance the illocutionary strength of a sentence, helping the inferential processof a relation of motive with the preceding phrase. Ved’ also occurs in bothinterrogative sentences in order to verify knowledge, with different pragmatic effects depending on the context, and complexsentences, where itacquires a factual meaning and functions as a text cohesion device. Theextensiverange of possibleItalian translations ofved' is a sign of its languagespecificity.