Russian collocation dictionary

[Richard DiPrima]

Google can be used as something like a collocation dictionary, and is much
quicker in many cases than referring to traditional bound dictionaries.
Suppose you’re interested in the argument frame of the verb “verit’” and
don’t know if it’s vo chto or *v chem. Simply type both variants into the
search engine (in quotes so all characters remain in exact sequence) and
see which returns results in the correct syntactic context.  Of course,
you’ll need to type the searches in a Cyrillic font supported by Google.
This is often my quick-and-dirty way of figuring out argument structures,
and the method also works in other cases – adjectival, adverbial
modification -- where you might otherwise refer to a collocation
dictionary.

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Richard DiPrima
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(206) 790-1067
E-mail: richard at rdiprima.com
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