From Gods Truth to Concession [От божьей правды к уступке]

This paper discusses the grammaticalization of the concessive connector pravda ‘p although q’ in Russian. Verification markers including its homograph, the stressed discourse marker PRAVDA ‘indeed’ as well as the predicate noun pravda ‘truth’ have a single propositional argument, while connectors have two. One must restore the second propositional argument from the context and explicitly mark the need of adding q in the situation, where the interlocutors already know p.