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Authors: Anna I. Silchencko Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Tomsk, Russian Federation In the section Linguistics
Abstract: Different ways of expressing activity / inactivity of a noun are shown in the article. Activity is expressed by various means. Firstly, marking plays a key role. The active case is a marked member of the opposition, the inactive case – unmarked. Ac-tive /animate nouns are usually marked by consonantal stem-building suffixes. The ac-tive participant of a situation is expressed by an animate referent, whereas the inactive participant is more often expressed by an inanimate one; active / animate nouns are usually marked by consonantal stem-building suffixes. Secondly, active nouns are used with active verbs which denote actions, motions, events, while stative verbs denote states and qualities. Thirdly, active nouns can be used both as the subject and the object of the active construction. Keywords: activity / inactivity, marking, stem-building suffixes, subject / object Bibliography: |
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