ABSTRACT
The Russian language, despite being one of the most studied in the world, until recently has been little explored quantitatively. After a burst of research activity in the years 1960-1980, quantitative studies of Russian vanished. They are now reappearing in an entirely different context. The Russian language is the mother tongue of 163.8 million people around the world, the majority of whom live in the Russian Federation. Verbs have person forms marked in present and future tenses, while the past tense is marked with the so-called preterit, which is historically rooted in a short participle and morphologically close to adjectives. Russian, as other Slavonic languages, developed reflexive verbs that are a salient category associated with changes in the structure of argument constructions. The re-launch of quantitative research in Russian took place since the dawn of the twenty-first century, not surprisingly shortly after the emergence of digital Russian corpora.
