{"title":"The long and the short of it: Russian predicate adjectives with zero copula","authors":"Tore Nesset, Laura A. Janda","doi":"10.1007/s11185-023-09280-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09280-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present article presents an empirical investigation of the choice between so-called long (e.g., prostoj ‘simple’) and short (e.g., prost ‘simple’) forms of predicate adjectives in Russian, based on data from the syntactic subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus. The data under scrutiny suggest that short forms represent the dominant option for predicate adjectives. It is proposed that long forms are descriptions of thematic participants in sentences with no complement, while short forms may take complements and describe both participants (thematic and rhematic) and situations. Within the “space of competition” where both long and short forms are well attested, it is argued that the choice of form to some extent depends on subject type, gender/number, and frequency. On the methodological level, the approach adopted in the present study may be extended to other cases of competition in morphosyntax. It is suggested that one should first “peel off” contexts where (nearly) categorical rules are at work, before one undertakes a statistical analysis of the “space of competition”.","PeriodicalId":43779,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135050132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Old East Slavic birch-bark literacy – a history of linguistic emancipation?","authors":"Imke Mendoza","doi":"10.1007/s11185-023-09278-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09278-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43779,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76309360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian indefinite markers to and nibud’: a microdiachronic approach","authors":"O. Pekelis","doi":"10.1007/s11185-023-09279-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09279-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43779,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS","volume":"11 1","pages":"253 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85244163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Zemicheva, M. Gromov, Ludmila Dubtsova, Maria Ugryumova, Anna Vasil'chenko, Natalia Zyuz’kova
{"title":"The Tomsk Dialect Corpus: a comprehensively annotated database of a Siberian Russian dialect from material collected over the last 70 years","authors":"S. Zemicheva, M. Gromov, Ludmila Dubtsova, Maria Ugryumova, Anna Vasil'chenko, Natalia Zyuz’kova","doi":"10.1007/s11185-023-09277-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09277-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43779,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS","volume":"34 1","pages":"231 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74004212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Конкуренция дательного падежа и предлога для при глаголах и предикативах в русском языке: семантика и синтаксис","authors":"V. Apresjan, A. Letuchiy","doi":"10.1007/s11185-023-09275-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09275-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43779,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS","volume":"36 1","pages":"167 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82647880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to threaten in Russian: a constructionist approach","authors":"V. Zhukova","doi":"10.1007/s11185-023-09274-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09274-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43779,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS","volume":"20 1","pages":"141 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91200890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-standard forms of saints’ names in Old East Slavic","authors":"E. Budennaya","doi":"10.1007/s11185-023-09273-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09273-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43779,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS","volume":"52 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86985908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of case and presuppositionality in the distribution of to čto-clauses in colloquial Russian: an experimental study","authors":"M. Knyazev, I. Ustinova","doi":"10.1007/s11185-023-09271-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09271-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43779,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS","volume":"37 1","pages":"87-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78015947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Colloquial Russian between theory and practice: what is claimed and what is real?","authors":"Magdalena Kaltseis, W. Stadler","doi":"10.1007/s11185-023-09272-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09272-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43779,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS","volume":"35 1","pages":"61-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90726408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}