8 datasets found

This dataset concerns the Russian construction where the same noun occurs in the nominative and instrumental cases, such as durak durakom ‘ultimate fool’. The dataset contains...

We present an analysis of nearly 4K examples of possessive constructions extracted from nearly 0.7M words of North Saami prose representing works of authors born in three time...

We present a study of four North Sámi adpositions that can be used as both prepositions and postpositions and thus be termed “ambipositions”. We advance three hypotheses...

Abstract Part One. There is controversy over whether byti ‘be’ in Old Church Slavonic functioned as an imperfective verb with an unusually large number of inflected forms or as...

Publication abstract: We claim that Russian verbal prefixes always express meaning, even when they are used to form the perfective partners of aspectual pairs. The prefixes in...

This dataset includes all the data files that were used for the studies in my Master Thesis: "The Choice of Aspect in the Russian Modal Construction with prixodit'sja/prijtis'"....

In 1985, Zwicky argued that “particle” is a pretheoretical notion that should be eliminated from linguistic analysis. We propose a reclassification of Russian particles that...

Publication abstract: A foundational goal of cognitive linguistics is to explain linguistic phenomena in terms of general cognitive strategies rather than postulating an...