Dative Ambiguity in Russian: A Corpus Induced Study
Dative Ambiguity in Russian: A Corpus Induced Study
Author(s): Edyta Jurkiewicz-RohrbacherSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: dative; Russian; syntactic-semantic role assignment; ambiguity avoidance strategies
Summary/Abstract: When describing the Russian dative case, an observation often made in passing is that its assignment to certain types of arguments is ambiguous, particularly in constructions with a predicative infinitive. Thus far, no studies have put this problem into focus nor described the range of structures to which it applies. I approach this problem with corpus-driven methods. The present study shows that the predicate order and the referential prominence hierarchy can be used as explanatory variables in the modelling of the semantic-syntactic role assignment.
Journal: Jazykovedný časopis
- Issue Year: 74/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 70-80
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
