TROPATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN SLAVIC MICROLANGUAGES: NATURAL AND CONSTRUCTED FEATURES

Roman  Viktorovich Tarasov

doi:10.21618/fil2531370t

Authors

Roman Viktorovich Tarasov Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication Department of Applied and Experimental Linguistics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21618/fil2531370t

Keywords:

Slavic languages, microlanguages, tropative, cross-sectional method, crosscategory typology

Abstract

This article is dedicated to means and strategies used to express tropative (a meaning ‘X considers Y to be Z’) in Slavic microlanguages, i.e. ethnolects possessing their own norm, different from those of standard languages and occupying a middle ground between natural and constructed languages. The sample of 10 microlanguages is subdivided into two halves: five authorial literature projects based on varieties of a particular area and five authorless regional ethnolects in order to compare the results for these two groups. Data were received from a short survey of language speakers, (co-) authors or users. The research has shown that these two types of microlanguages use totally different constructions. The results of the research contribute both to typology of tropative and for cross-category typology (typology of languages of different origin) in general.

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