GF Russian Resource Library

For Pron, we let the latter argument win – *Maxa ili mo� mama (Nominative
case) but – *moe� ili Maxina mama (Genitive case) both corresponds to Masha’s
or my mother, which is actually not exactly correct, since different cases should be
used – Maxina ili mo� mama.
conjPron : Bool -> Bool -> Bool = \_,p -> p ;
For gender in a similar manner as for person: Needed for adjective predicates
like: Maxa ili Ol� – krasiva� (Masha or Olya is beautiful), Anton ili Oleg
– krasivy� (Anton or Oleg is beautiful), *Maxa ili Oleg – krasivy� (Masha or
Oleg is beautiful). The later is not totally correct, but there is no correct way to
say that.
conjGender : Gender -> Gender -> Gender = \_,m -> m ;
conjPGender : PronGen -> PronGen -> PronGen = \_,m -> m ;
conjAnim : Animacy -> Animacy -> Animacy = \_,m -> m ;
}
8 Idiom
8.1 Abstract API
This module defines constructions that are formed in fixed ways, often different
even in closely related languages.
abstract Idiom = Cat ** {
fun
A separate example for Russian, since it rains can not be translated into an impersonal
construction (doжdь id�t):
ImpersCl : VP -> Cl ; -- it rains
svetaet (dawn is breaking)
No generic clauses in Russian. The function is kept for the sake of compatibility with
the language-independent API. Infinitive is the closest form, see also subsection 8.2
for more comments:
}
GenericCl : VP -> Cl ; -- one sleeps
spixь
ExistNP : NP -> Cl ; -- there is a house
estь dom
ExistIP : IP -> QCl ; -- which houses are there
kakie estь doma
ProgrVP : VP -> VP ; -- be sleeping
spit
ImpPl1 : VP -> Utt ; -- let’s go
dava�te po�d�m
CleftNP : NP -> RS -> Cl ; -- it is you who did it
зto ty, kto sdelal зto
CleftAdv : Adv -> S -> Cl ; -- it is yesterday she arrived
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зto vqera, ona vernulasь