Choice of Aspect in a Russian Modal Construction

B. Bernasconi
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Russian aspect has been studied by many scholars over the decades within different perspectives and from different points of view, but its usage still presents challenges and controversial points. Within the cognitive paradigm, Janda and colleagues (Janda and Reynolds 2019; Janda et al. 2019) have recently demonstrated that the choice of aspect in Russian is not always determined by context but is relatively open to construal. In particular, among the cases that are open to construal, modal constructions figure prominently. In this article I present two quantitative studies on the modal construction приходиться/прийтись + infinitive, ‘have to’, with the aim of providing more evidence for their finding. The hypothesis is that the aspect of the infinitive is not fully determined by grammatical context but, to some extent, is open to construal. The first study is an analysis of corpus data taken from the Russian National Corpus. A dataset of 447 examples was annotated for several factors  in order to single out variables that significantly interacts with aspect choice in the infinitive. The second study consists of an experiment with Russian native speakers. An acceptability judgement survey was submitted to 110 informants that had to rate both aspects in the infinitive in the same contexts. In both cases statistical methods were used to analyse the data. Results to the corpus analysis led to the conclusion that no contextual factor significantly influences the choice of aspect, while the answers to the survey demonstrated that both aspects are rated as grammatically acceptable by the majority of the native speakers.
俄语情态结构的体选择
几十年来,许多学者从不同的角度和不同的角度对俄语方面进行了研究,但它的使用仍然存在挑战和争议点。在认知范式中,Janda及其同事(Janda and Reynolds 2019;Janda等人(2019)最近证明,俄语中方面的选择并不总是由语境决定的,而是相对开放的解释。特别是,在可以解释的情况下,情态结构占据了突出的位置。在这篇文章中,我提出了两个关于情态结构приходиться/прийтись +不定式“have to”的定量研究,目的是为他们的发现提供更多证据。该假说认为,不定式的词形并不完全由语法语境决定,而是在某种程度上可以解释。第一项研究是对取自俄罗斯国家语料库的语料库数据进行分析。一个包含447个例子的数据集对几个因素进行了注释,以便挑出与不定式中aspect选择显着相互作用的变量。第二个研究包括一个以俄语为母语的人的实验。一份可接受性判断调查提交给110名被调查者,他们必须在相同的语境中对不定式的两个方面进行评分。在这两种情况下,统计方法被用来分析数据。语料库分析的结果表明,语境因素对词性的选择没有显著影响,而调查的答案表明,大多数母语人士认为这两个词性在语法上都是可以接受的。
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