Raising constructions with verbs of perception in Russian

Galina Kustova
Pushkin State Russian Language Institute / Vinogradov Russian Language Institute RAS

Abstract: This paper discusses the meaning and morphosyntax of the Russian the raising construction with verbs of perception videt'/uvidet' (‘to see’) and participles: Ya uvidel yego predel'no ustavshim (‘I saw him extremely tired’); Uvideli yego vykhodyashchim iz otelya (‘They saw him leaving the hotel’); Ona videla yego odnazhdy plachushchim (‘She saw him crying once’). The raising constructions (Otets uvidel svoyego syna upavshim na zemlyu ‘The father saw his son fall to the ground’) are compared with sentential argument (Otets uvidel, kak syn upal na zemlyu ‘The father saw his son fall to the ground’).

Keywords: verbs of perception, propositional attitudes, argument raising, participle

For citation: Kustova G. Raising constructions with verbs of perception in Russian. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2025. Vol. 8, iss. 2. Pp. 66–88. (In Rus.) doi:10.37632/PI.2025.30.58.003