Replication data for: Death of a construction: Old Church Slavonic touch verbs

Data set for a study of the locative argument structure construction in Old Church Slavonic. In this article I examine an argument structure construction on its deathbed, namely, the Old Church Slavonic (OCS) bare locative argument construction. Why does the construction even exist when the pattern it instantiates is otherwise dead? What happens to the verbs involved, and which argument structure constructions take over? I take a usage-based approach to syntactic productivity to examine what happens in such cases. In many ways, this approach can account for the observed development. The final stronghold of the locative construction was a small group of highly semantically coherent verbs. When the construction was lost, the verbs joined other argument constructions, preferably constructions that were also highly semantically coherent, but not necessarily very type frequent. However, syntactic productivity alone cannot explain the patterns of attraction: we must also look at the semantic and formal fit.

本研究数据集旨在探讨古教会斯拉夫语中方位论元结构构建过程。本文深入剖析了濒临消亡的论元结构构建现象，即古教会斯拉夫语（OCS）裸方位论元结构构建。为何在所呈现的句法模式已趋式微的情况下，该结构仍得以存续？涉及动词的命运如何，何种论元结构构建将取而代之？本论文采用基于使用的句法生产力分析方法，探究此类情况下的变化。从多方面来看，此方法可以解释所观察到的语言发展。方位结构构建的最后一道防线，是一小群高度语义一致的动词。当结构丧失时，这些动词加入了其他论元结构构建，更倾向于那些同样高度语义一致的构建，尽管不一定非常频繁地使用。然而，仅凭句法生产力本身无法解释吸引力的模式：我们还需审视语义和形式的契合度。