title: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY ON THE REALIZATION OF SENTENTIAL COMPLEMENTS IN RUSSIAN
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Knyazev, Mikhail Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-05-06T17:07:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-05-06T17:07:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-04
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288062353.14
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36307
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Declarative sentential complements in Russian can be realized either directly as čto-clauses
  or as čto-clauses embedded in the nominal construction headed by the “correlative”
  pronoun to. In previous studies, several factors that influence the choice of one of these
  two strategies have been identified, including the discourse status of the complement,
  the agentivity of the verb, the choice of the verb, register, etc. This study investigates the
  effect of syntactic complexity of the sententce in which the complement clause is embedded.
  The effect of complexity has been demonstrated before on the basis of several corpus
  studies of various constructions in English, which suggested that higher complexity
  is associated with the preference for the more explicit construction in the case of alternations.
  The goal of this study was to test whether complexity leads to a higher preference
  for the construction with the correlative (being the more explicit of the two alternants).
  Complexity was operationalized as additional embedding of the complement-taking
  predicate in a relative clause, either with a finite or a participial head (the latter presumably
  leading to still higher complexity). The hypothesis regarding the effect of complexity
  was tested in two experiments, an acceptability judgment study and a (100-scale) graded
  forced choice study. The experiments also tested the effect of the association between a
  verb and one of the two complementation strategies in the corpus (using the Attraction
  measure) as well as the effect of the subcategorization frame of the verb, i. e. whether it
  can take a direct object (by hypothesis, leading to the higher preference for čto-clauses)
  or only an oblique. The results of the experiments did not show an effect of complexity,
  which might be due to a small size of the effect and/or the nature of the task. However,
  the experiments revealed the effect of the Attraction class and of the subcategorization
  frame, namely, in oblique positions sentential complements show a higher preference
  for the correlative as opposed to direct positions. At the same time, verbs that have a
  higher association with čto-clauses in the corpus, show an approximately equal preference
  for both strategies. An explantion of this effect is proposed. Refs 16.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: St. Petersburg University Studies in Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 2 Proceedings of 49th International Philological Conference in Memory of Professor Ludmila Verbitskaya (1936–2019);Volume 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sentential complements
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: syntactic alternation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: experimental study
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: syntactic complexity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: frequency
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY ON THE REALIZATION OF SENTENTIAL COMPLEMENTS IN RUSSIAN
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Book chapter
metadata.lang: en_GB
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