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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.18710/OTA2JF |
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Publication Date
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2025-11-17 |
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Title
| Background Data for Constructionalization of body part constructions in Russian: five constructions with face, eyes, forehead, and back terms |
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Author
| Demidova, DariaÅbo AkademiORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0009-0002-0150-8423 |
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Point of Contact
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Demidova, Daria (Åbo Akademi) |
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Description
| Dataset abstract The dataset includes the attestations of five Russian constructions with body part term anchors (face, eyes, forehead, and back): VP v lico ('in face'), VP v glaza ('in eyes'), VP v lob ('in forehead'), VP za spinoj ('behind back'), and VP za glaza ('behind eyes'). The database covers the period from the 11th century to 2019. The dataset is in Russian. The database contains examples from the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru), specifically the main and historical (Old East Slavic and Middle Russian) subcorpora. The data was collected from the RNC during the period spanning spring 2024 to summer 2025. (2025-11-07)
Article abstract The paper examines the evolution of five Russian constructions that include body part terms: в лицо ‘in face’, в глаза ‘in eyes’, в лоб ‘in forehead’, за спиной ‘behind back’, and за глаза ‘behind eyes’. The qualitative analysis is based on the materials of the Russian National Corpus (main, National Media, Old East Slavic, and Middle Russian subcorpora). The five constructions constitute a family of “inclusative and exclusative” constructions. A crucial feature of the family is its semantics of the purposeful inclusion or exclusion of a participant, specifically the topic of the conversation. Inclusative constructions refer to situations in which a person is insulted or mocked openly and in their presence, ‘to their face’. Exclusative constructions denote situations in which an absent person is discussed, ridiculed, or negatively affected in some other way secretly, ‘behind their back’. Non-compositional structure of the aforementioned constructions provides them with the ability to obtain non-trivial semantics. The paper discusses these meanings (such as presence or absence), explores the emergence of the five constructions in Russian, and describes the dynamic interactions and variations in the diachronic development within the family. The research shows that the three oldest constructions of the family have followed a similar historical trajectory: в лицо ‘in face’, в глаза ‘in eyes’ and за глаза ‘behind eyes’ had the ability to denote a more general ‘presence’ or ‘absence’ meaning, but have now developed to only describe open or secret communication. Moreover, the three constructions had multiple formal variants (in terms of lexemes and case forms), but only one variant in each case has survived the competition. Moreover, the research shows that the process of constructionalization is still ongoing: some of the discussed constructions are developing new semantics pertaining to online vs offline communication. (2025-11-14) |
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Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
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Keyword
| Russian
body part construction
corpus |
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Related Publication
| Daria Demidova (submitted for review): Constructionalization of body part constructions in Russian: five constructions with face, eyes, forehead, and back terms |
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Language
| English |
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Producer
| Åbo Akademi https://www.abo.fi/en/ |
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Production Location
| Russia |
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Distributor
| The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) (TROLLing) https://trolling.uit.no/ |
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Depositor
| Demidova, Daria |
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Deposit Date
| 2025-11-07 |
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Time Period
| Start Date: 1000; End Date: 2019-03 |
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Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2024-04; End Date: 2025-06 |
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Data Type
| Corpus data |
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Data Source
| The data in this dataset were retrieved from the Russian National Corpus, RNC, https://ruscorpora.ru/ under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.
The extracted text fragments that are contained in the data files of this dataset only represent non-substantial portions of the sources listed above, and they do not represent coherent larger texts. Therefore, the reuse (including redistribution) of these excerpts is permitted by the exceptions rules in IPR and database protection regulations, such as Fair use (USA cf. US Copyright Act), Fair dealing (UK; cf. Exceptions to copyright), the EU Database Directive (cf. article 8 Rights and obligations of lawful users), "lover, forskrifter, rettsavgjørelser og andre vedtak av offentlig myndighet" (Norway; cf. § 14 in Åndsverkloven), "uvesentlige deler av databaser" (Norway; cf. § 24 in Åndsverkloven), "sitatretten" (Norway; cf. § 29 in Åndsverkloven). As these excerpts do not represent substantial parts of the reused sources, the redistribution of these excerpts is according to Creative Commons (CC) also permitted if they are extracted from sources that are distributed under Creative Commons licenses (cf. question "Do I always have to comply with the license terms? If not, what are the exceptions?" in the Creative Commons Frequently Asked Questions). |
