Russian temporal deictic adverbs

Russian locates a time relative to the deictic centre with the adverbs togda 'then' and sejčas 'now'. Togda is distal, referring to a past or future time away from the centre; sejčas refers to a time that includes the centre. The examples are those of [TZ26].

References

• [TZ26]

def Russian.TemporalDeictic.togda : Tense.DeicticAdverb

togda (тогда) 'then', a time before or after the deictic centre: V 2016 godu Tanja skazala, čto togda Putin byl prezidentom Rossii 'In 2016 Tanja said that Putin was president of Russia then'.

Equations

• Russian.TemporalDeictic.togda = { form := "togda", cell := (Semantics.Denotes.denote Tense.present)ᶜ }

def Russian.TemporalDeictic.sejchas : Tense.DeicticAdverb

sejčas (сейчас) 'now', a time including the deictic centre.

Equations

• Russian.TemporalDeictic.sejchas = { form := "sejčas", cell := Semantics.Denotes.denote Tense.present }