Descrizione semantico-funzionale delle particelle russe e corpora paralleli. Un’analisi contrastiva (italiano-russo) corpus-based di ved’

This paper analyses the 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 examples ved’ is used to enhance the illocutionary strength of a sentence, helping the inferential process of a relation of motive with the preceding phrase. ved’ also occurs in both interrogative sentences in order to verify knowledge, with different pragmatic effects depending on the context, and complex sentences, where it acquires a factual meaning and functions as a text cohesion device. The extensive range of possible Italian translations of ved’ is a sign of its language specificity.