10.18710/ZTQURH Janda, Laura Alexis Laura Alexis Janda https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5047-1909 UiT The Arctic University of Norway DataverseNO 2025 Arts and Humanities Russian adjectives short forms long forms instrumental corpus data regression analysis UiT The Arctic University of Norway The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) Janda, Laura Alexis Laura Alexis Janda UiT The Arctic University of Norway 2025-01-25 2025-01-25 2025-01-25 2025-02-04 2026-01-26 corpus data 10.1007/S11185-025-09314-W 10.18710/ZTQURH/CA10AN 10.18710/ZTQURH/7L7ASB 10.18710/ZTQURH/LNOMRO 10.18710/ZTQURH/1KQGAG 10.18710/ZTQURH/WXM47J 10.18710/ZTQURH/IKAXGJ 626056 909349 127532 10025 6203 11823 text/comma-separated-values text/comma-separated-values text/comma-separated-values text/plain text/plain text/plain 1.1 Custom terms specific to this dataset <b>Dataset description</b> <p>This post provides the data and R scripts for analysis of data on the variation between long form nominative, short form nominative, and instrumental case in Russian predicate adjectives in sentences containing an overt copula verb. We analyze the various factors associated with the choice of form of the adjective.</p> <b>This is the abstract of the article:</b> <p>Based on data from the syntactic subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, we undertake a quantitative analysis of the competition between Russian predicate adjectives in the instrumental (e.g., pustym ‘empty’), the long form nominative (e.g., pustoj ‘empty’), and the short form nominative (e.g., pust ‘empty’). It is argued that the choice of adjective form is partly determined by the context. Four (nearly) categorical rules are proposed based on the following contextual factors: the form of the copula verb, the presence/absence of a complement, and the nature of the subject of the sentence. At the same time, a “space of competition” is identified, where all three adjective forms are attested. It is hypothesized that within the space of competition, the three forms are recruited to convey different meanings, and it is argued that our analysis lends support to the traditional idea that the short form nominative is closely related to verbs. Our findings are furthermore compatible with the idea that the short form nominative expresses temporary states, rather than inherent permanent characteristics.</p> R, R Core Team. (2022). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Available at: https://www.R-project.org/. Russian Federation Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills UTF-2020/10129