Replication Data for: Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The competition between instrumental, long form nominative and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectivesdoi:10.18710/ZTQURHDataverseNO2025-02-041Janda, Laura Alexis, 2025, "Replication Data for: Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The competition between instrumental, long form nominative and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectives", https://doi.org/10.18710/ZTQURH, DataverseNO, V1Replication Data for: Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The competition between instrumental, long form nominative and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectivesdoi:10.18710/ZTQURHJanda, Laura AlexisUiT The Arctic University of Norway2025-01-25RUTF-2020/10129DataverseNOThe Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)Janda, Laura AlexisJanda, Laura Alexis2025-01-252025-01-25Arts and HumanitiesRussian adjectivesshort formslong formsinstrumentalcorpus dataregression analysis<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>1900201520232023Russian Federationcorpus data<p>SynTagRus, a subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, available at <a href="https://ruscorpora.ru/en">ruscorpora.ru</a>.</p> <p>The extracted text fragments that are contained in the data files of this dataset only represent insubstantial portions of the source listed above, and they do not represent coherent larger texts. Reuse of such excerpts is permitted under exceptions in IPR and database protection regulations, such as "fair use" (cf. <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html">US Copyright Act</a>), the <a href="http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/1996/9/2019-06-06">EU Database Directive</a> (cf. art 8 Rights and obligations of lawful users), and the Norwegian Copyright Act (cf. <a href="https://lovdata.no/lov/2018-06-15-40/§24">§ 24 Eneretten til databaser</a>).</p> <p>Annotations of the data were added by the authors as noted in the README file.</p><p>With the exception of the data files (01_Database_overt_copula_all.csv, 02_2Way_Data.csv, and 04_3Way_Data.csv), the dataset "Replication Data for: Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The competition between instrumental, long form nominative and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectives" has been marked as dedicated to the public domain, as described here: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/</a>.</p> <p>Our <a href="https://dataverse.org/best-practices/dataverse-community-norms">Community Norms</a> as well as good scientific practices expect that proper credit is given via citation. Please use the data citation shown on the dataset page.</p> <p>The data files (01_Database_overt_copula_all.csv, 02_2Way_Data.csv, and 04_3Way_Data.csv) contain text fragments that have been extracted from The Russian National Corpus (RNC), available at <a href="https://ruscorpora.ru">ruscorpora.ru</a>, under limitations and exceptions to IPR and database protection regulations. The contribution of the author of the present dataset to these files, as detailed in the ReadMe file, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, as described here: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>.</p>Janda, Laura Alexis, 2023, "Replication Data for: The long and the short of it: Russian predicate adjectives with zero copula", <a href="https://doi.org/10.18710/XKDBLF":>https://doi.org/10.18710/XKDBLF</a>, DataverseNO, V1Nesset, Tore and Janda, Laura A. 2025. Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The competition between instrumental, long form nominative and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectives. Russian Linguistics. 49:6.Nesset, Tore and Janda, Laura A. 2025. Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The competition between instrumental, long form nominative and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectives. 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