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<p>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 semanticsyntactic role assignment.</p>
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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 semanticsyntactic role assignment.

Dative Ambiguity in Rusian: A Corpus Induced Study

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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When describing the Russian dative case, an observation often made in passing is that its assignment to certain types of arguments is ambiguous, particularly...

Dative Ambiguity in Rusian: A Corpus Induced Study

Published Online: Dec 25, 2023

Page range: 70 - 80

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0025

Keywords
dative, Russian, syntactic-semantic role assignment, ambiguity avoidance strategies

© 2023 Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Dative Ambiguity in Rusian: A Corpus Induced Study

Published Online: Dec 25, 2023

Page range: 70 - 80

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0025

Keywordsdative, Russian, syntactic-semantic role assignment, ambiguity avoidance strategies

© 2023 Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
dative, Russian, syntactic-semantic role assignment, ambiguity avoidance strategies