Vera I. Podlesskaya
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vera I. Podlesskaya plays a role.
2020 Chapter 1. Russian spoken discourse: Local structure and prosody In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre'el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso (eds.), pp. 35–76 | Chapter
We previously developed an approach to spoken Russian monologic discourse, and are now extending that, looking primarily at interactional multi-party discourse, contextualizing speech phenomena as multichannel (multimodal) communication. The evidence analyzed is the Russian Pear Chats and Stories… read more
2020 Chapter 6. The Moscow approach to local discourse structure: An application to English In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre'el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso (eds.), pp. 367–382 | Chapter
This chapter is an exploratory study in which we apply an approach to local discourse structure and prosody, developed for spoken Russian, to English talk. A key conceptual element of our approach is the notion of elementary discourse unit (EDU). EDUs are identified on the basis of prosodic… read more
2010 Parameters for typological variation of placeholders Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders, Amiridze, Nino, Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan (eds.), pp. 11–32 | Article
The paper focuses on a type of discourse marker that signals production difficulties in spontaneous spoken discourse. Hesitation markers of this type, conventionally termed placeholders, mainly have a pronominal origin and serve as a preparatory substitute for a delayed constituent. Based on… read more
2006 Auxiliation of ‘give’ verbs in Russian: Discourse evidence for grammaticalization Voice and Grammatical Relations: In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani, Tsunoda, Tasaku and Taro Kageyama (eds.), pp. 271–298 | Article
1999 External Possession, Reflexivization and Body Parts in Russian External Possession, Payne, Doris L. and Immanuel Barshi (eds.), pp. 505–522 | Article
1993 Causatives and causality: towards a semantic typology of causal relations Causatives and Transitivity, Comrie, Bernard and Maria Polinsky (eds.), pp. 165–176 | Article