STUDIES ON PREDICATION IN RUSSIAN--Ⅱ. ONE THE PREDICATIVE USE OF THE RUSSIAN INFINITIVE

摘要

The second part of a study on the complex function of predication and it’s for-mal expression in Contemporary Standard Russian (CSR). This Memorandum discusses the predicative use of the Russian infinitive against the background of its entire range of functions (the "semantic spectrum"). The author surveys the predicative and semi-predicative use of the Russian infinitive; studies its peculiarities by applying certain transformational procedures; and discusses how it expresses predicative categories of time, modality, person, aspect, mode of action, etc. Some suggestions for automatically translating Russian predicative infinitives are included.