Subordinate clause prolepsis in Russian

摘要: This paper provides a semantic analysis of Russian sentences in which an element, that is dependent on element the subordinate clause, occurs main clause. We will call this phenomenon, typical for spoken and informal Russian, ‘subordinate clause prolepsis’. The offers qualitative analysis, using data from literature, internet, National Corpus, acceptability survey. It shown there are two factors relevant case prolepsis. Firstly, prolepsis only possible if content Secondly, triggered by information structure. gives detailed specific structure can trigger prolepsis, such as topicalization, focalization, parallelism.