Case Choice in Russian Genitive/Nominative Absence Constructions

On-Line Processing of Russian Scrambling Constructions:

Bank of Russian Constructions and Valencies

The Bank of Russian Constructions and Valencies (Russian FrameBank) is an annotation project that takes as input samples from the Russian National Corpus (http://www.ruscorpora.ru). Since Russian verbs and predicates from other POS classes have their particular and not always predictable case pattern, these words and their argument structures are to be described as lexical constructions. The sl...

FrameBank: A Database of Russian Lexical Constructions

Russian FrameBank is a bank of annotated samples from the Russian National Corpus which documents the use of lexical constructions (e.g. argument constructions of verbs and nouns). FrameBank belongs to FrameNetoriented resources, but unlike Berkeley FrameNet it focuses more on the morphosyntactic and semantic features of individual lexemes rather than the generalized frames, following the theor...

the verbal constructions in azari (harzani dialect)

most of the verbal constructions of harzani dialect have got inflectional affixes. the majority of the constructions are made up vy adding a specific verbal affix to the verbal stem (infinitive without infinitive marker). only a few number of them is formed by adding a verbal affix to the past participle of the verb. there are specific rules for the formation of different verbal types. there is...

Russian Infinitival Existential Constructions from an Hpsg Perspective

Russian infinitival existential constructions have puzzled linguists for decades. An excellent critical evaluation of different approaches, as well as related references, can be found in (Apresjan and Iomdin 1989). It is not the goal of the present study, therefore, to review existing analyses. The focus will rather be on working out a plausible analysis of Russian infinitival existential const...