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Surrey Database of Short Term Morphosyntactic Change: Case assignment on predicate nouns ...
Abstract: The notion of 'short term morphosyntactic change' can be used to characterise changes in the use of forms in a short period of time even when the forms themselves have changed relatively little. The Short Term Morphosyntactic Change (STMC) Databases explore change in six different morphosyntactic phenomena in Russian over a 200 year period from 1801-2000. Nouns in predicate position with the copular byt´ (‘to be’) may take either the nominative or the instrumental case. The nominative is the case originally used in the predicate. The instrumental is the innovation, which has expanded dramatically over the last two centuries. The accepted view is that predicate nouns with more specified temporal, referential or evidential properties favour the instrumental (Nichols 1981, Timberlake 2004). These properties may be linked to the semantics of the predicate noun (animacy, concreteness) and aspects of clause structure (such as the tense/mood of the copula, word order, and the presence of dependents on the ...
Keyword: Case; Historical linguistics; Morphology; Morphosyntactic change; Predicate nouns; Russian; Surrey Morphology Group; University of Surrey
URL: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/stmc/predicate-nouns/cite
https://dx.doi.org/10.15126/smg.17/1
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Surrey Database of Short Term Morphosyntactic Change: Case assignment on direct objects of negated transitive verbs ...
Krasovitsky, Alexander; Brown, Dunstan; Corbett, Greville G.. - : University of Surrey, 2009
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Surrey Database of Short Term Morphosyntactic Change: Predicate adjectives ...
Alison, Long; Brown, Dunstan; Corbett, Greville G.. - : University of Surrey, 2009
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Surrey Database of Short Term Morphosyntactic Change: Case of modifier in phrases with ‘two’, ‘three’, ‘four’ ...
Krasovitsky, Alexander; Brown, Dunstan; Corbett, Greville G.. - : University of Surrey, 2009
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Surrey Database of Short Term Morphosyntactic Change: Predicate agreement with conjoined noun phrases ...
Krasovitsky, Alexander; Brown, Dunstan; Corbett, Greville G.. - : University of Surrey, 2009
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Surrey Database of Short Term Morphosyntactic Change: Predicate agreement with quantified expression ...
Krasovitsky, Alexander; Brown, Dunstan; Corbett, Greville G.. - : University of Surrey, 2009
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