Syntactic structure of noun phrases with coordinated modifiers in Russian: Experimental study

Kseniia Studenikina
Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract: The paper deals with the syntax of noun phrases with coordinated modifiers in Russian, which demonstrate agreement variation: both singular noun (distributive strategy) and plural noun (summative strategy) are grammatical. I aim to reveal the parameters of variation and to propose the formal syntactic analysis. The first experimental study considers the influence of the noun number morphology on the agreement strategy. The second experiment examines the attributive number agreement of the coordinated modifiers in comparison with the predicative one. According to experimental studies, the derivation of Russian coordinated modifiers includes the multidominant structure and the number feature is equipolent.

Keywords: coordination, syntax of noun phrases, variation, agreement, experimental syntax, formal Russian linguistics

For citation: Studenikina K. Syntactic structure of noun phrases with coordinated modifiers in Russian: Experimental study. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2022. Vol. 5, iss. 1. Pp. 107–139. (In Rus.)