Essex Russian Nominalizations Database

This dataset is the result of two projects (ESRC Project numbers R000234783 and R000236115). The 
database was originally designed by Andrew Bredenkamp and Louisa Sadler. It was redesigned by 
John Gregory. Responsibility for further modifications and for the inputting of the data lies with 
Marina Zaretskaya and Andrew Spencer.

The dataset is in three parts each being in the form of a table converted to a text file. There is a table 
of Verbs (split across two disks with the separate tables labelled Verbs_1.txt, Verbs_2.txt), a table of 
nominalizations from those verbs, including an indication of where a verb fails to license a 
nominalization (Nouns.txt) and a table which associates the primary key (Identifier) of each Noun 
entry with the primary key of the corresponding Verb entry (Links.txt). The latter table, when 
incorporated into an appropriate relational database, allows a very large range of sophisticated queries 
to be run on the Nouns and Verbs tables concurrently.

Full details of the database and its construction can be found in the paper 'The Essex Database of 
Russian Verbs and their Nominalizations' by Andrew Spencer and Marina Zaretskaya, deposited with 
the Data Archive and included as a Word 7.0 file on disk 1.


Andrew Spencer	spena@essex.ac.uk
Marina Zaretskaya	zaremd@essex.ac.uk

Department of Language and Linguistics
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom