ECHO-THEMATIC ACCENT IN THE SO CALLED UNDIVIDED (THETIC) SENTENCES

The paper considers the intonation design of the statements similar to Nastupila vesna ‘Spring has come’, which are traditionally treated as undivided (“thetic”), that is, con sisting of only rheme. The material for the article was obtained by sampling fragments containing statements of the type under study from the Spoken subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus. The analysis using instrumental methods shows that the intonation de sign of such statements in non-public speech does not diff er from the actor’s intonation design of the statements from a literary text. It is shown that this lift diff ers signifi cantly from the well-known “automatic”, or technical, lift and, in terms of its characteristics, ap proaches IK-3 or coincides with it. It is argued that the echo-thematic rise is not due to the formal characteristics of the sentence, but to an individual intonation design strategy.