Browsing by Subject "Belarusian language"

This thesis investigates relative clauses in Russian and Belarusian, focusing on syntactic structures, usage patterns, and the distribution of linguistic elements within relative clauses. The study employs a corpus-based approach, analyzing data from the Universal Dependencies (UD) Russian SynTagRus corpus and the Belarusian UD HSE treebank. The research explores various aspects of relative clauses, including the position of the relative clause, the syntactic function of the head, the function of the relativizer, and the part-of-speech distribution within relative clauses. Through quantitative analysis, the study identifies consistent patterns and similarities between Russian and Belarusian relative clauses. Key findings include the predominance of left-headed relative clauses in both languages, with rare instances of right-headed structures primarily occurring in specific linguistic contexts such as correlatives. Nominal subjects emerge as the most frequent syntactic function of the head in both languages, reflecting universal principles governing the syntactic organization of relative clauses. The analysis of relativizers reveals that relative pronouns dominate as the predominant type, with "который" and "якi" being the most prevalent in Russian and Belarusian, respectively. Furthermore, both languages exhibit similar distributions of relative adverbs and conjunctions, indicating a shared syntactic strategy for introducing and connecting subordinate clauses to main clauses. Regarding part-of-speech distribution within relative clauses, nouns and verbs emerge as the most prevalent syntactic relation, highlighting their role in specifying entities and actions. While variations exist, particularly with certain adjective-verb and adverb-noun relations, the overall patterns remain largely similar between Russian and Belarusian.