Russian Predicatives and Frequency Metrics
Anton Zimmerling
April 2024 

This paper introduces five metrics for measuring the frequencies of dative predicatives in Russian. I measure the frequencies of the predicatives in the contact position <-1;1> with the same-clause dative subject pronouns in 1Sg (m-metric) and 3Sg (e-metric). I argue that for each large text collection there is a minimal m-value confirming that an item belongs to the core of the dative-predicative construction. For each list of dative predicatives, it is true that the majority of its elements are autoreferential expressions oriented towards 1st person present indicative tense in the direct speech. The RNC data suggest an inverse correlation between the score of an item in the context specific for dative-predicative structures (m) and its overall frequency in the corpus (N). This effect is explained by the regular homonymy of high frequent predicatives with high frequent adverbials and parenthetical expressions.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008056 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Computational linguistics and intellectual technologies. Issue 22. Proceedings of the international conference “Dialogue 2023”. 2023, 579 – 589. DOI: 10.28995/2075-7182-2023-22-579-589
keywords:	morphosyntax, predicatives, corpus linguistics, autoreferentiality, frequency metrics, semantics, morphology, syntax
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