Short Adjective Inquiry

[Danko Sipka]

Russian National Corpus (http://www.ruscorpora.ru/search-main.html) may be useful here.

Галина Щербакова. Моление о Еве (2000) [омонимия не снята] Все контексты (1) 
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Danko Sipka
Professor of Slavic Languages
School of International Letters and Cultures
Arizona State University
Web: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka
Mail: Danko.Sipka at asu.edu

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From: "Wayles Browne" <ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Short Adjective Inquiry


> Surely other color adjectives can have short forms too? Couldn't one say
> cvetok krasen, bumaga bela, listva zelena? Maybe there was nothing
> remarkable about their short forms, so grammars didn't have to mention
> them, unlike the short forms of sinij, which have unusual spellings as
> compared with other adjectives.
> But I suspect that one couldn't say nebo golubo, nor cvetok
> fioletov. How do Russian speakers react to these?
> 
> At 2:46 PM -0600 2/26/08, Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI] wrote:
>>Can anyone tell me why sinii is the only color adjective to have a short
>>form associated with it--at least according to the grammars I've
>>consulted?  (sin', sinia, sine, sini)
>>
>>Does it have anything to do with it being a soft-stem adjective?
>>
>>Has anyone ever heard or seen (no pun intended) it used?  And, finally,
>>especially for native speakers, have you ever had occasion to use it
>>yourself?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Tony Vanchu
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