Replication Data for: Together and apart: Perfective verbs with a prefix and the semelfactive suffix -nu- in Contemporary Standard Russian

This dataset includes all the data files that were used for the studies in my PhD dissertation \"Together and apart: Perfective verbs with a prefix and the semelfactive suffix -nu- in Contemporary Standard Russian\" (2019). Most of the files involve data tables with annotated corpus data from the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru). Every tabular data file is available in two formats: .csv and .xlsx. The data files are numbered so that they are shown in the same order as they become relevant in the dissertation, and their contents are described in the ReadMe files with the same number. In addition, the dataset contains the R script and .txt file that was used in order to make the plot in Chapter 2., The dissertation investigates Russian perfective verbs with a prefix and the semelfactive suffix -nu-, such as zaxlopnut’ ‘slam shut’, for the sake of simplicity referred to as “Pref-Nu verbs”. Pref-Nu verbs have received only marginal attention in the scholarly literature, and in the dissertation a main goal is therefore to shed light on their distribution and productivity in Contemporary Standard Russian, as well as the type of verb clusters and semantic classes they represent. A second main goal is to compare the behavior of Pref-Nu verbs with the behavior of perfective verbs that have only one of the two relevant affixes, i.e. only a prefix, such as zaxlopat’ ‘begin to slam’, or only the semelfactive suffix -nu , such as xlopnut’ ‘slam, clap, bang once’. All of these questions are explored with data from the Russian National Corpus (years 1950-2017), and, as a general tendency, Pref-Nu verbs are found to differ from the other two verb types in that they express a single “quantum” of an action that yields some result. The choice between Pref-Nu verbs and other perfectives is furthermore explored through an informant experiment that focuses on cases of near-synonymy between related verbs. The results of the experiment indicate that none of the verbs are fully synonymous, although their semantic differences are often subtle.

本数据集涵盖本人2019年博士学位论文《协同与分立：现代标准俄语中带前缀及单次体后缀（semelfactive suffix）-nu-的完成体动词（perfective verbs）》相关研究使用的全部数据文件。其中多数文件为源自俄罗斯国家语料库（Russian National Corpus，www.ruscorpora.ru）的标注语料库数据表。所有表格数据文件均提供.csv与.xlsx两种格式。数据文件按其在论文中出现的先后顺序编号，对应编号的ReadMe文件会详细说明各文件的内容。此外，本数据集还包含用于制作论文第二章插图的R脚本（R script）及纯文本（.txt）文件。

本论文聚焦于带前缀及单次体后缀-nu-的俄语完成体动词（例如захлопнуть“砰地关上”，为简便起见下称“前缀-单次体动词（Pref-Nu verbs）”）。此类前缀-单次体动词在学术文献中仅获得过边际性关注，因此本论文的核心目标之一是阐明其在现代标准俄语中的分布特征与构词能产性，以及其所归属的动词簇类型与语义类别。第二个核心目标是将前缀-单次体动词的行为表现，与仅带有两类相关词缀之一的完成体动词进行对比：一类是仅带前缀的完成体动词（例如захлопать“开始砰地作响”），另一类是仅带单次体后缀-nu-的完成体动词（例如хлопнуть“砰地拍一下、砰地撞一下”）。所有相关问题均依托俄罗斯国家语料库1950-2017年的语料展开分析。整体而言，研究发现前缀-单次体动词与另外两类动词存在显著差异：它们表达的是产生特定结果的单次“量子化”动作。此外，本研究还通过一项针对相关动词近义现象的知情被试实验，探讨了前缀-单次体动词与其他完成体动词的选择偏好。实验结果表明，尽管各类动词间的语义差异往往较为细微，但并无任何一对动词是完全同义的。