Designed to serve as a textbook for courses in statistical analysis in linguistics, this book orients the reader to various quantitative methods and explains their implications for the field. The methods include chi-square, Fisher test, binomial test, ANOVA, correlation, regression, and cluster analysis. The advantages and limitations of each method are detailed and each method is illustrated with ...

This article argues that metaphorical and non-metaphorical content find different expression on the constructional level. The hypothesis is supported by two empirical case studies of the Russian Locative Alternation verbs, based on the data from the Russian National Corpus: the unprefixed verb sypat’ ‘strew’ (which does not have an aspectual partner) and the unprefixed verb gruzit’ ‘load’ and its ...

This article discusses the acquisition of gender in Russian, focusing on some exceptional subclasses of nouns that display a mismatch between semantics and morphology. Experimental results from twenty-five Russian-speaking monolinguals (age 2;6–4;0) are presented and, within a cue-based approach to language acquisition, we argue that children rely on certain morphosyntactic micro-cues in the course ...

This article presents a thorough investigation of the five Russian deictic words that correspond to the English meanings ‘here’ and ‘now’: zdes’, tut, sejčas, teper’ and vot. We analyze data from the Russian National Corpus and data from Russian TV news broadcasts. On the basis of the corpus data, we propose a radial category network consisting of nine subcategories, which encompass all five words, ...

This article presents a corpus-based investigation of temporal adverbials with special focus on Russian в ‘in(to)’ and its cognates in North Slavic (Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish and Czech). We advance the Constraint Hypothesis, according to which case government is more restricted in the domain of time than in the domain of space. This hypothesis receives support from the five languages under ...

I verb som написать ‘skrive’ og сварить ‘koke’ pleier man å si at prefiksene er tomme, siden slike verb (med unntak av aspekt) har samme betydning som de tilsvarende uprefigerte verbene. Vårt utgangspunkt er i stedet hypotesen om at disse prefiksene er ikke tomme, men danner et verbklassifikasjonssystem som ligner på tallordklassifikasjonssystemene i språk som Yucatec Maya (Lucy 1992). Majsak (2005) ...

The present study investigates the relationship between historical linguistics and language typology in Russian temporal adverbials. It is argued that temporal adverbials with v ‘in(to)’ are typologically unusual, since they are at variance with Leonard Talmy’s generalization that the semantics of closed-class elements tend to be magnitude-neutral (“topological”), rather than magnitude-sensitive ...

We are pleased to present Aspect in Slavic: Creating Time, Creating Grammar as a special issue of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Here we offer some of the research results of the CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian) group at the University of Tromsø and our collaborators. This research was sponsored by a grant from the Norwegian Research Council for a project entitled ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show why studies of public libraries, regarding their possible contribution in creating social capital, are important for social capital research in general, and are important for library practice in particular. Design/methodology/approach – Building on the latest theoretical developments and empirical findings of social capital research, the role of the ...

Empirical research on public libraries and social capital has primarily been oriented toward discovering how libraries contribute to social capital in local contexts, rather than contributing to solving the theoretical puzzles of the social capital literature. In spite of this, it has produced interesting findings that align with new developments in social capital research. These findings emphasize ...