These data contain examples from translations between Russian and Swedish where a Swedish infinitive construction ["för att" 'in order to' + infinitive] with a purpose meaning corresponds to a Russian converb (i.e. adverbial participle) construction. The examples have been extracted from the Russian National Corpus RNC (ruscorpora.ru) by actively searching for this correspondence. Over 600 examples have been found where the requested correspondence can be demonstrated. The Russian converb constructions have two structural types: analytical [converb+ infinitive] and synthetic [converb only]. The correspondence in question is mainly found in Russian converbs of imperfective aspect. There are two files, one with examples with Russian converbs with imperfective aspect and one with Russian converbs with perfective aspect. The study mainly concerns converbs of imperfective aspect because there is a larger dataset of these. These have been annotated for various morphological and semantic features.

Data contains personal data

Yes

Type of personal data

Bibliographic references that express the origin of the sources from which the text extracts come. Occasional mentions that can be linked to living persons from the public sphere may appear in the text excerpts derived from news and magazine texts.

Language

English

Russian

Swedish

Method and outcome

Time period(s) investigated

1835 – 2018

Data format / data structure

Text

Data collection

Language resources

Resource type

Language description

Foreseen use

Human use

Language description type

Grammar

Encoding levels

Semantics, Morphology

Task

Other

Original source

ruscorpora.ru

https://ruscorpora.ru/s/e5GJ8

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden, Russian Federation

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

Department of Language Studies

Funding

Funding agency: Umeå University
Funding information: PhD project at department of Language studies, Umeå university, financed by Faculty of Arts, Umeå university

Topic and keywords

Research area

General language studies and linguistics (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Specific languages (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Keywords

Intention, Intentionality, Adverbial, Meanings (semantics), Linguistic objects, Linguistic properties, Swedish language, Russian language, Translations, Purpose

Publications

Mellquist, S. Russian Converb Constructions Corresponding to Swedish Purposive för att ‘in order to’ + Infinitive Constructions. (2024). Poljarnyj vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, vol. 27, 2024, pp. 1–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7557/6.7494

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