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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.18710/VESH4N |
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Publication Date
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2025-12-16 |
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Title
| Supporting data for: Ukrainian Indefinite Pronouns and Language Typology |
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Author
| Nesset, Torehttps://ror.org/00wge5k78ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1308-3506
Palii, Yuliiahttps://ror.org/00wge5k78ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0686-593X |
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Point of Contact
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Nesset, Tore (UiT Norges arktiske universitet) |
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Description
| Dataset abstract: In order to shed light on the distribution of Ukrainian indefinite pronouns and adverbs we carried out corpus searches and created datasets with corpus data which were subjected to empirical analysis. Ukrainian indefinite pronouns and adverbs consist of two parts, viz. an interrogative (question word, e.g. що ‘what’) and an indefiniteness marker. The datasets are organized in a way that enables us to investigate the frequency and meaning of the attested combinations of interrogatives and indefiniteness markers. We carried out corpus searches and exported the data to a spreadsheet, where additional annotation was added.
Abstract from related publication: The present article offers an empirical analysis of Ukrainian indefinite pronouns and adverbs based on data from the GRAC corpus. The proposed analysis has ramifications for Ukrainian linguistics, Slavic linguistics, and language typology. With regard to Ukrainian linguistics, we identify substantial frequency differences and suggest distinguishing between a “core” system including the indefiniteness markers de-, -s’ and bud’-, and three “peripheral” markers, viz. -nebud’, aby-, and kazna. From the perspective of Slavic linguistics, the proposed analysis facilitates comparison with other Slavic languages, such as Polish and Russian. Our analysis pinpoints a number of similarities across Ukrainian, Polish and Russian, but also demonstrates that Ukrainian has a distinct system that merits investigation in its own right. For language typology, the analysis we propose shows how frequency information can be integrated in semantic maps, which arguably makes semantic maps a more powerful tool for cross-linguistic comparison. |
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Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
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Keyword
| Ukrainian
Indefinite pronouns
Indefinite adverbs
Interrogatives
Indefiniteness markers
Corpus linguistics |
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Related Publication
| Tore Nesset and Yuliia Palii (forthcoming): Ukrainian Indefinite Pronouns and Language Typology. Slovo - Journal of Slavic Languages, Literature and Cultures |
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Language
| English |
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Producer
| UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) https://en.uit.no |
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Contributor
| Data Collector: Palii, Yuliia
Project Leader: Nesset, Tore |
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Distributor
| The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) (TROLLing) https://trolling.uit.no/ |
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Depositor
| Nesset, Tore |
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Deposit Date
| 2025-12-08 |
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Time Period
| Start Date: 1834; End Date: 2024 |
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Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2025-05-01; End Date: 2025-05-31 |
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Data Type
| corpus data; corpus annotations |
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Software
| Excel, Version: 16.103.4 (25120717) |
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Data Source
| The data in this dataset were retrieved from the General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian (GRAC), that is to be cited as follows:
Shvedova, Maria, von Waldenfels, Ruprecht, Yarygin, Sergey, Rysin, Andriy, Starko, Vasyl, Nikolajenko, Tymofij et al. (2017-2022): GRAC: General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian. Electronic resource: Kyiv, Lviv, Jena. Available at https://uacorpus.org/en.
The extracted text fragments that are contained in the data files of this dataset only represent non-substantial portions of the sources listed above, and they do not represent coherent larger texts. Therefore, the reuse (including redistribution) of these excerpts is permitted by the exceptions rules in IPR and database protection regulations, such as Fair use (USA cf. US Copyright Act), Fair dealing (UK; cf. Exceptions to copyright), the EU Database Directive (cf. article 8 Rights and obligations of lawful users), "lover, forskrifter, rettsavgjørelser og andre vedtak av offentlig myndighet" (Norway; cf. § 14 in Åndsverkloven), "uvesentlige deler av databaser" (Norway; cf. § 24 in Åndsverkloven), "sitatretten" (Norway; cf. § 29 in Åndsverkloven). |
