dc.contributor.author | Nesset, Tore | |
dc.contributor.author | Janda, Laura Alexis | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-07T07:51:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-09-07T07:51:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-09-01 | |
dc.description.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 Rus-
sian, 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 adjec-
tives. 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 partici-
pants (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 mor-
phosyntax. 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”. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Nesset t, Janda LA. The long and the short of it: Russian predicate adjectives with zero copula. Russian Linguistics : International Journal for the Study of the Russian Language. 2023 | en_US |
dc.identifier.cristinID | FRIDAID 2171722 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09280-1 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0304-3487 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-8714 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30771 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Russian Linguistics : International Journal for the Study of the Russian Language | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2023 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | en_US |
dc.subject | VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010 | en_US |
dc.subject | VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010 | en_US |
dc.subject | Russisk språk / Russian language | en_US |
dc.title | The long and the short of it: Russian predicate adjectives with zero copula | en_US |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Tidsskriftartikkel | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |