Shared by All Speakers? Dative Predicatives in Bulgarian and Russian

Elena Ivanova

St. Petersburg State University (Russia)

Anton Zimmerling

Pushkin State Russian Language Institute / Moscow Pedagogical State University / Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

Abstract. We analyze the language-internal variation in the class of dative predicatives in Bulgarian and Russian. For each language, a test questionnaire is prepared. The stimuli are grouped into 15 thematic classes for Russian and 19 thematic classes for Bulgarian and tested on native speakers. Their responses provide a sample of stimuli ranked according to the approval rate. The same set of stimuli is tested on Russian National Corpus and Bulgarian National Corpus, which provided the second ranked sample. The volume and structure of the class of dative predicatives is established by the ratio of these ranked samples.

Keywords: Russian; Bulgarian; corpus linguistics; sociolinguistics; variation; lexicon; grammar; predicatives

Свързани статии:

Adnominal da-clauses in Bulgarian Language: Semantic Specificity Problems and Current State of the Bulgarian Anthroponymic System Cognitive Linguistics: Reflections on a Modern Study With Care and Responsibility for Bulgarian Language Teaching