Quantitative corpus analysis of implicit evaluativeness: the case of ‘sovershit’sya’ and ‘svershit’sya’ in Russian internet discourse
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‘svershit’sya’, in turn, tends to denote situations that have some significance for the conceptualizer — spiritual, social, psychological, moral, etc., both with a ‘plus’ and a ‘minus’ sign. It has also been established that in the aspect of “pragmatics of induced evaluation”, according to the data of quantitative analysis, the verb ‘sovershit’sya’ refers to a neutrally evaluated fact, event or phenomenon, while the verb ‘svershit’sya’ clearly tends to the positive-evaluative attitude of the speaker ...
