Replication Data for: Shortening mechanisms in Construction Morphology: The Russian spec-N construction

This database contains Russian nouns beginning with the string spec from the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru), such as specoperacija ‘special operation’. The database was created in the following way. First, we searched for all lemmas beginning with spec in the part of the main corpus containing non-fiction (nexudozhestvennaja literatura) and created a list of all the head words (e.g., operacija). Second, we identified the number of attestations for each word and included this information in the list. Third, we searched for the full adjectives special’nyj and specializirovannyj immediately followed by the head words (e.g., special’naja operacija and specializirovannaja operacija). The number of attestations for each combination of adjective and noun was included in the list. The corpus searches were carried out in 2022. In the database, the words are given in Cyrillic.