Replication Data for: The trajectory of the “Možno ja X?” construction: Variation in speech acts of request in contemporary Russian

This dataset concerns the data for the article that covers the topic of variation in speech acts of request with the modal word možno in Russian. I explore the ongoing language change in which the impersonal modal word možno ‘can, be possible’ takes a personal clause (možno + NOM) as its complement instead of the Experiencer in the Dative case (možno + DAT) and the infinitival clause in the speech act of request in Contemporary Russian. The corpus-based evidence reveals that the construction možno + DAT is gradually being replaced by možno + NOM. I discuss various syntactic and pragmatic factors such as verb class, aspect, transitivity and politeness strategies that motivate the choice of a modal construction. Methods of statistical modelling, used to sort out the most significant factors contributing to the choice of construction, show that the most important factor is the date of creation of the text.本数据集关联一篇学术论文的配套数据，该论文主题为俄语中带情态词možno的请求言语行为变体现象。本研究探讨了现代俄语中正在进行的语言演变：无人称情态词možno（义为“能够、可能”）在请求言语行为中，正以主谓分句（možno + 主格（NOM））作为补语，逐步取代原有的两类结构——带与格（DAT）感受者的možno + 与格结构，以及不定式分句结构。基于语料库的实证研究表明，možno + 与格（DAT）结构正逐渐被možno + 主格（NOM）结构所替代。本研究探讨了驱动情态结构选择的各类句法与语用因素，涵盖动词类别、语法体、及物性与礼貌策略等。本研究采用统计建模方法，以甄别对结构选择影响最为显著的因素，结果显示，文本创作时间是影响结构选择的最关键因素。