Slavic Lab
Applied, Experimental and Computational Linguistics
| Russian corpus grammar |
Word embedding models
| Sense
frequencies | Microsyntax@SynTagRus
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As an international expert in computational
and Slavic linguistics, Prof. Dr. Avgustinova is part of the
research consortium at https://ruscorpora.ru/,
contributing to grammatical phenomena located at the
borderline between lexicon and syntax, which belong to the
area of the so-called micro-syntax,
A primary goal is to investigate the monolingual idiomaticity
in a multilingual mode of language use, in particular, the
comprehensibility of (Russian) micro-syntactic phenomena to
speakers of mutually intelligible (Slavic) languages. The
linguistic units embrace non-compositional (idiomatic and
semi-idiomatic) multi-word entities which are at the same time
grammatically idiosyncratic and therefore require specific
rules for adequate representation. The practical objective is
to design a comprehensive on-line resource encompassing the
multitude of conventionalized multi-word combinations
cross-linguistically. The idea to use micro-syntactic
phenomena in didactic, cognitive and typological tasks is
truly novel and has not been explored before. As a result,
creating a multi-lingually parallel Slavic corpus and
conducting contrastive analyses will shape the core of a
poly-functional multilingual database of micro-syntactic
equivalences. Such a resource will be useful both for
educational purposes and for language-technology applications.