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Database of Russian Impersonal Verbal Constructions

Anna A. Zalizniak^ab, M. G. Kruzhkov<sup>b

a</sup> Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1-1 Bolshoy Kislovskiy pereulok, Moscow 125009, Russian Federation
^b Institute of Informatics Problems, Federal Research Center "Computer Science and Control" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 44-2 Vavilov Str., Moscow 119333, Russian Federation

Abstract: This article presents the Database of Russian Impersonal Verbal Constructions that has been developed to support a linguistic research of Russian impersonal verbal construction as mirrored in translations into other languages. This information resource was developed based on the concept of Supracorpora Databases (SCDBs). Translation correspondences in the Database of Russian Impersonal Verbal Constructions are presented as ordered pairs that combine formal descriptions of corresponding lexical-grammatical forms found in source and target texts of a parallel corpus. The paper also provides description of the methodology for creation of translation correspondences in the database. Some of the problems related to the task of finding Russian impersonal verbal constructions in corpora are considered and approaches to solving those problems are proposed. Thanks to integrated search and statistical functions, the Database of Russian Impersonal Verbal Constructions and other SCDBs significantly extend capabilities of linguistic experts using corpus-based methods to analyze specific linguistic items, both independently and in contrast with other languages.

Keywords: computer linguistics; contrastive linguistics; information technologies; electronic corpora; supracorpora databases; Russian language; impersonal constructions.

Received: 13.10.2016

DOI: 10.14357/19922264160414

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