29 datasets found

Abstract: This dissertation challenges the traditional idealized model of allomorphy by confronting it with comprehensive data on 15 Russian aspectual prefixes (RAZ-, RAS-,...

[abstract] Given that their L1, Norwegian, and their L2, English, are lexical stress languages, Norwegian speakers will equally tend to stress lexical words during the course of...

This article explores the synchronic variation between the nominative-accusative (NA) and genitive-accusative (GA) in the oldest layer of canonical Old Church Slavonic (OCS),...

Data set for a study of the locative argument structure construction in Old Church Slavonic. In this article I examine an argument structure construction on its deathbed,...

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...

This dataset consists of (1) an excel file with type and token counts of all paired consonants word-finally and before non-front vowels, their probabilities, and the entropies...

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

This case study of the four Natural Perfectives of the Russian simplex verb путать ‘tangle’ sheds light on the following questions: Is it possible to predict the choice of...

In this article we focus on one grammaticalization path to perfective markers, that of the so-called "bounder perfectives" (Bybee and Dahl 1989). Systems with this kind of...