Replication Data for: Two origins of the prefix IZ- and how they affect the VY- vs. IZ- correlation in Modern Russian.

Abstract

This is the data examined in the study of Modern Russian verbs formed with the prefixes VY- and IZ-, a native East Slavic prefix and a loan Church Slavonic prefix, both of which mean ‘out of’. The study provides a synchronic contrastive analysis of the two prefixes and discusses how much they are semantically similar and what determines their distribution across Russian verbs. The dataset “VY_IZ_DATABASE_2019” provides replication data for the article “Two origins of the prefix IZ- and how they affect the VY- vs. IZ- correlation in Modern Russian” accepted for publication in Russian Linguistics. International Journal for the Study of Russian and other Slavic Languages 43(3). The amount of data examined in this study exceeds all previous accounts of the issue. The database contains 989 prefixed verbs. The verbs were culled from the Modern Subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru) and manually tagged for a number of parameters. The data was extracted automatically via the software management program MySQL. After that each verb was double-checked in the corpus and analyzed. In the database, each verb is accompanied with an English gloss, simplex base, corpus frequency, corpus example of its use, and a number of tags relevant for this study (type of perfective, submeaning of the prefix, etc.). The structure of the database is described in detail in the document “ReadMe”.