The long and the short of it: Russian predicate adjectives with zero copula.
The present article presents an empirical investigation of the choice between so-called long (e.g., prostoj 'simple') and short (e.g., prost 'simple') forms of predicate adjectives in Russian, based on data from the syntactic subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus. The data under scrutiny suggest...
| Publicado en: | Russian Linguistics Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 299 - 322 |
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