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Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara and Tiago Timponi Torrent
[Constructional Approaches to Language 22] 2018
► pp. 165–181

Chapter 6
A constructicon for Russian

Filling in the gaps

The Russian Constructicon project currently prioritizes multi-word constructions that are not represented in dictionaries and that are especially useful for learners of Russian. The immediate goal is to identify constructions and determine the semantic constraints on their slots. The Russian Constructicon is being built in parallel with the Swedish Constructicon and will ultimately model the entire Russian language in terms of constructions at all levels from morpheme to discourse. The contents of the Russian Constructicon will serve learners of the language, linguists researching both language-internal and typological phenomena, and will also serve language technology applications such as spell checkers and automated readability assessment tools.

Keywords: Russian, constructions, multi-word, semantic constraints, learners, language technology, typology
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.History and partners
  • 3.Russian constructions: What’s missing
  • 4.Status of the project and examples from the Russian constructicon
  • 5.Further research facilitated by the Russian constructicon
  • 6.Applications served by the Russian constructicon
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
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Published online: 17 July 2018
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