|
Persistent Identifier
|
doi:10.18710/ZTQURH |
|
Publication Date
|
2025-02-04 |
|
Title
| Replication Data for: Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The competition between instrumental, long form nominative and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectives |
|
Author
| Janda, Laura Alexis (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) - ORCID: 0000-0001-5047-1909 |
|
Point of Contact
|
Use email button above to contact.
Janda, Laura Alexis (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) |
|
Description
| Dataset description
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. (2025-01-25)
This is the abstract of the article:
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. (2025-01-25) |
|
Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
|
Keyword
| Russian adjectives
short forms
long forms
instrumental
corpus data
regression analysis |
|
Related Publication
| Nesset, Tore and Janda, Laura A. To Appear. Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The competition between instrumental, long form nominative and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectives. Russian Linguistics. |
|
Language
| English |
|
Producer
| UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
|
Production Date
| 2025-01-25 |
|
Funding Information
| Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills: UTF-2020/10129 |
|
Distributor
| The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) (TROLLing) https://trolling.uit.no/ |
|
Distribution Date
| 2025-01-25 |
|
Depositor
| Janda, Laura Alexis |
|
Deposit Date
| 2025-01-25 |
|
Time Period
| Start Date: 1900 ; End Date: 2015 |
|
Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2023 ; End Date: 2023 |
|
Data Type
| corpus data |
|
Software
| R, Version: 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/. |
|
Related Dataset
| Janda, Laura Alexis, 2023, "Replication Data for: The long and the short of it: Russian predicate adjectives with zero copula", https://doi.org/10.18710/XKDBLF, DataverseNO, V1 |
|
Data Source
| SynTagRus, a subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, available at ruscorpora.ru.
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. US Copyright Act), the EU Database Directive (cf. art 8 Rights and obligations of lawful users), and the Norwegian Copyright Act (cf. § 24 Eneretten til databaser).
Annotations of the data were added by the authors as noted in the README file. |
