Distributive constructions with interrogative pronouns (Russian)

The RuTenTen-based dataset is supplementary to the article "Autonomous distributive constructions with interrogative pronouns in Russian."

The article is devoted to one type of Russian distributive constructions with two interrogative pronouns кто куда, кто о чем, когда как, which possess the meaning ‘different Xs are featured with different Ys’. We discovered that the constructions without a predicate in the right context form a special type, which differs from indirect distributive questions and quasi-relatives in their semantic, pragmatic, syntactic, and communicative properties. Based on corpus data, we show their historical development and modern usage and describe the most frequent lexical variables, which fill the construction. The conclusion is that the frequency, syntactic features, and degree of idiomatization have their own semantic, communicative, and pragmatic grounds.