[SEELA NGS] он сл омал *себ е* ногу v s. он сло м ал н огу

[Alina Israeli]

The way you put questions would make a good research paper for a  
graduate student who would have to spend a year or two in the field,  
and look if there are gender/regional/class/age differences.

The current data suggests that in the 19th century they predominantly  
used "sebe" and in the 20th predominantly without.

I doubt this is a word that could have any gender based distinction in  
the usage. But one never knows. Send you grad students.

AI

Jan 20, 2011, в 5:23 AM, anne marie devlin написал(а):

> Somehow, I don't think that raw statistical data on frequency of use  
> gives the answer.  What we need to know is in which contexts they  
> are used.  "она сломала ногу" may be 30 times more frequent;  
> however, "я сломала себе ногу" is still present, so we need to ask  
> in which social context is себе added. Is it found in written or  
> spoken data?, is it particular to a region?, is it gender-based/age- 
> based/class-based?. Is it a formal/informal situation. Is the  
> speaker high/low/equal status to the interlocutor?
> I'm also presuming that the google corpus is a corpus of written  
> data, and written and spoken data are often not comparable
> AM
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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