Quantitative research on declensions and accents of nouns and adjectives in modern Russian

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370462
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: USUYAMA Toshinobu 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (50323225)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 現代ロシア語 / 名詞 / 形容詞 / 語形変化型 / アクセント型 / 数量的分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study Russian explanatory dictionaries served as a basis for building a database of nouns and adjectives. The built database of nouns showed that the “Big explanatory dictionary of the Russian language” (130,000 words) comprises 31,973 nouns, where 15,267 are masculine nouns, 10,157-feminine nouns, 4,455-neuter nouns, 374-amphoteric nouns (masculine/feminine (329), masculine/neuter (19), feminine/masculine (26)), and 1,720-plural nouns. “Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language” (80,000 words) contains 15,972 adjectives, among which 15,300 (95.8%) are hard adjectives and 385 (2.4%) are soft adjectives. The findings of the study can be easily projected and applied to the Russian language education.

Free Research Field

言語学、言語教育学、言語政策論