10.18710/HSK0LEMakarova, AnastasiaAnastasiaMakarova0000-0002-0468-9867UiT The Arctic University of NorwayNesset, ToreToreNesset0000-0003-1308-3506UiT The Arctic University of NorwayDataverseNO2014Arts and Humanitiesnu-dropRussianRussian National CorpusField: MorphologyTopic: verbsTime-depth: diachronicTime-depth: synchronicMakarova, AnastasiaAnastasiaMakarovaUiT The Arctic University of NorwayUiT The Arctic University of NorwayTheThe Arctic University of NorwayThe Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)TheTromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)UiT The Arctic University of Norway201420122014-06-132023-09-28corpus10.1007/s11185-011-9084-9207257628649472application/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excel2.3CC0 1.0The spreadsheet "Nu-drop database" includes verbs that are characterized by nu-drop, the process whereby certain verbs with the suffix -nu- omit this morpheme in past tense forms. The verb forms culled from the Russian National Corpus are tagged for phonological, morphological and syntactic/semantic properties that are possible factors influencing the nu-drop.Publication abstract: In the present article we are offering a corpus-based analysis of nu-drop in Russian verbs, the process whereby certain verbs with the suffix -nu- omit this morpheme in past tense forms. We will explore phonological, morphological and syntactic/semantic factors and show that inflectional and derivational morphology are the most important for nu-drop. Our study of the inflectional and derivational morphological categories yields a polarized general picture; the categories display either close to 100% Ø-forms (i.e. forms without -nu-) or close to 0% such forms, while no categories are in the middle of the scale. Moreover, a diachronic survey of the development between the 19th and 21st centuries indicates increasing polarization, insofar as increasing percentages of Ø-forms are attested among forms with high percentages of Ø-forms, whereas decrease is characteristic of forms with low percentages of Ø-forms.