10.18710/UR1QAA Fellerer, Jan Jan Fellerer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7474-5692 University of Oxford DataverseNO 2022 Arts and Humanities Ukrainian language Dialects Subject pronoun Verb morphology Language contact University of Oxford The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) Fellerer, Jan Jan Fellerer University of Oxford 2022-07-11 2022-07-21 2023-09-28 2022-03-01/2022-04-30 1930-01-01/2015-01-01 Annotated corpus and textual data 10.1007/S11185-022-09260-X 10.18710/UR1QAA/XEQTGD 10.18710/UR1QAA/ODGZAO 10.18710/UR1QAA/FODWEL 10.18710/UR1QAA/A69R7E 10.18710/UR1QAA/RIO3BK 34786 31312 61280 41309 9150 text/plain application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet text/plain application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet text/plain 1.2 Custom terms specific to this dataset These are the replication data for part of a journal article on 'Subject pro-drop and past-tense auxiliary clitics in South-Western Ukrainian'. The abstract of the article is below. The data consist of annotated strings of continuous text in Standard Ukrainian (=ProDrop_SU.txt) and in South-Western Ukrainian Dialect (=ProDrop_SWU.txt), with 460 parsed predications each for Standard Ukrainian and South-Western Ukrainian dialect. The sources and the annotation are detailed in the accompanying description of the data (=00_readme_file_for_ProDrop.txt). The aim is to identify the predications that allow for subject pro-drop, to correlate its occurrence with the main morpho-syntactic features of the predicate (tense, person, number), and to compare its frequency in South-Western Ukrainian Dialect versus Standard Ukrainian. Here is the abstract of the article: South-Western Ukrainian dialects have retained the option of auxiliary clitics in the formation of the past tense. At the same time, they have past-tense forms without auxiliary clitics as in Northern Ukrainian dialects, and in Standard Ukrainian based on South-Eastern dialects. A sample corpus study suggests that South-Western Ukrainian also shows a higher frequency of subject pro-drop than Standard Ukrainian. The South-Western Ukrainian pattern presents the precise mirror image of the same two features in South-Eastern ‘Borderland’ Polish. Here, the dialect adopted the option of past-tense forms without auxiliary clitics, next to those with them as in Standard Polish. At the same time, it shows a higher frequency of non-pro-drop than Standard Polish. I argue that these matching facts are the result of long-standing language contact that worked simultaneously in two directions: the increase in the use of an existing dialectal Ukrainian pattern under Polish influence, as well as the increase in the use of an existing dialectal Polish pattern under Ukrainian influence. As a result, both dialects show the same variation between past-tense forms with auxiliary clitics and without them, and they have mutually converging tendencies in subject pro-drop – the Ukrainian dialect adapting towards Polish pro-drop, and the Polish dialect towards Ukrainian non-pro-drop. The bi-directionality of influence in the SWU dialectal areal goes beyond ‘classical’, i.e. unidirectional language-contact scenarios. Excel, 2013 Ukraine