English and Russian Genitive Alternations: A Study in Construction Typology

Comparison of English, Russian genius turns. The validity of the cross-language comparison of these paired constructions in English and Russian. Analysis of the intralingual distribution of constructions from the standpoint of the hierarchy of animation.

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Appendix

Appendix 1

noun

s-genitive

of-genitive

Shakespeare

374

121

Milton

107

56

Tolkien

99

12

Chaucer

62

14

Kipling

51

2

Proper nouns

Tennyson

38

8

Byron

44

13

Wilde

46

8

Wordsworth

210

24

Spenser

53

4

TOTAL

1084

262

driver

435

25

president

570

531

doctor

623

124

farmer

238

11

Human common nouns

reader

335

23

master

325

103

manager

428

65

teacher

549

234

soldier

109

11

traitor

3

1

TOTAL

3615

1128

cow

153

29

spider

67

17

horse

385

107

bird

202

121

Animate common nouns

snail

52

5

goat

77

14

boar

40

8

cat

203

58

pig

104

35

fish

86

662

TOTAL

1369

1056

stone

74

393

doll

83

2

Inanimate common nouns

car

251

279

pin

6

21

apple

5

58

grass

1

361

book

191

173

noun

s-genitive

of-genitive

computer

133

570

tree

28

88

cigarette

1

57

TOTAL

773

2002

Appendix 2

genitive turnover english russian

noun / adjective

noun + noun in genitive case

relative adjective derived from noun + noun

Proper

nouns

Pushkin / pushkinskij

7246

4065

Nekrasov / nekrasovskij

1169

245

Bulgakov / bulgakovskij

1119

220

Pelevin / pelevinskij

79

1

Derzhavin / derzhavinskij

577

121

Lomonosov / lomonosovskij

1591

169

Pasternak / pasterankovskij

1275

162

Chehov / chehovskij

4605

1550

Turgenev / turgenevskij

1569

523

Gogol' / gogolevskij

3801

1520

TOTAL

23031

8576

Human

common

nouns

voditel' / voditel'skij

1295

754

president / presidentskij

11683

4016

doktor / doktorskij

5237

1402

fermer / fermerskij

295

499

chitatel' / chitatel'skij

4298

1118

master / masterskij

4526

2927

menedzher / menedzherskij

703

72

uchitel' / uchitel'slij

5797

1419

soldat / soldatskij

10495

6799

predatel' / predatel'skij

445

750

TOTAL

44774

19756

Animate

common

nouns

korova / korovij

1908

1312

pauk / pauchij

373

159

loshad' / loshadinyj

8631

2488

ptica / ptichij

6202

3363

ulit^a / ulit^in

157

1

kozel / kozlinyj

1361

483

kaban / kabanij

304

166

koshka / koshachij

1460

1440

svinja / svinoj

1243

1624

ryba / rybij

4035

1834

TOTAL

25674

12870

Inanimate

common

nouns

kamen' / kamennyj

3903

19431

kukla / kukol'nyj

731

922

mashina / mashinnyj

14289

1840

bulavka / bulavochnyj

172

177

jabloko / jablochnyj

1307

797

trava / trav'anoj

2620

788

kniga / knizhnyj

17458

7165

noun / adjective

noun + noun in genitive case

relative adjective derived from noun + noun

kompjuter/ kompjuternyj

1306

4033

derevo/ derev'annyj

9626

19641

sigareta/ sigaretnyj

1475

357

TOTAL

52887

55151

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