Replication data for: Prefix variation in путать: в-. за-, пере- and с-

This case study of the four Natural Perfectives of the Russian simplex verb путать ‘tangle’ sheds light on the following questions: Is it possible to predict the choice of prefix when there is prefix variation in Russian? And if yes, how? Since these questions are particularly relevant for second-language learners, the author also discusses how the present study and similar ones, can be used to make second language learning of Russian more effective. The analysis is based on a database of 630 sentences from the Russian National Corpus (RNC) and takes two factors into consideration: type of construction and semantic category of the internal argument.