TY - JOUR

T1 - Comparing corpus and experimental approaches

T2 - A study of syntactic properties of the Russian enclitic že

AU - Valova, E. A.

AU - Slioussar, N. A.

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Corpus and experimental approaches in linguistics are often seen as incompatible, and there are very few studies of grammatical phenomena that rely on both of them, without one or the other being subsidiary. In this paper, we would like to show that they are complimentary and can be fruitfully combined on the example of Russian phrasal enclitic že. We analyze various factors influencing its position in the sentence, in particular, whether it obeys Wackernagel's law, which applied to phrasal enclitics in Old Russian. Data from the National Russian corpus show that že appears in the strict Wackernagel's position in the absolute majority of cases in the main subcorpus and the newspaper subcorpus, while the subcorpus of spoken Russian exhibits more variation. Corpus data allow tracing diachronic tendencies and identifying several factors (primarily, the semantics of že). Experimental data let us estimate the role of these and other factors on a carefully balanced set of examples. Apart from syntactic and semantic factors, the age and educational level of participants was demonstrated to influence the results.

AB - Corpus and experimental approaches in linguistics are often seen as incompatible, and there are very few studies of grammatical phenomena that rely on both of them, without one or the other being subsidiary. In this paper, we would like to show that they are complimentary and can be fruitfully combined on the example of Russian phrasal enclitic že. We analyze various factors influencing its position in the sentence, in particular, whether it obeys Wackernagel's law, which applied to phrasal enclitics in Old Russian. Data from the National Russian corpus show that že appears in the strict Wackernagel's position in the absolute majority of cases in the main subcorpus and the newspaper subcorpus, while the subcorpus of spoken Russian exhibits more variation. Corpus data allow tracing diachronic tendencies and identifying several factors (primarily, the semantics of že). Experimental data let us estimate the role of these and other factors on a carefully balanced set of examples. Apart from syntactic and semantic factors, the age and educational level of participants was demonstrated to influence the results.

KW - Corpus approach

KW - Experimental approach

KW - Phrasal enclitics

KW - Russian

KW - Wackernagel's law

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020461801&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - статья

AN - SCOPUS:85020461801

SP - 806

EP - 816

JO - Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии

JF - Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии

SN - 2221-7932

ER -