Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij is involved.
2026 From temporal meaning to relevance-oriented discourse function: A cross-linguistic study of discourse markers Comparing Constructions in Romance and Germanic Languages, Mellado Blanco, Carmen and Pedro Ivorra Ordines (eds.), pp. 344–369 | Article
The aim of the present article is to contribute to the understanding of the process of pragmaticalization. We analyze discourse markers of the after all type in Russian, English, German, Swedish, and Italian. Previous research has shown that temporal adverbials may develop discursive meanings… read more
2020 German constructional phrasemes and their Russian counterparts: A corpus-based study Computational Phraseology, Corpas Pastor, Gloria and Jean-Pierre Colson (eds.), pp. 43–64 | Chapter
In this article I examine a group of semi-fixed German expressions that are irregular with regard to the relationship between form and meaning, namely constructional phrasemes with the deictic elements her ‘hither’ and hin ‘thither’ [vor sich her + V] and [vor sich hin + V]. These constructions… read more
2013 Lexical synonymy within the semantic field POWER Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics, Kor Chahine, Irina (ed.), pp. 281–296 | Article
The purpose of our paper is to clarify semantic differences in present-day usage between the words революция ‘revolution’, and переворот ‘revolution’, on the one hand, and мятеж ‘revolt’ and восстание ‘uprising’, on the other. Although they are members of the same semantic field, they display some… read more
1998 Russian and German Idioms from a Contrastive Perspective Contrastive Lexical Semantics, Weigand, Edda (ed.), pp. 227–242 | Article