Search in the SynTagRus. The appeal of SynTagRus becomes clear, if we consider what exactly we are looking for and where it can be found. Since our prime interest lies in the investigation of HA and its interaction with the AH, it appears logical to look for instances of HA in the four relevant domains or target positions: attributive, predicative, relative pronoun, and personal pronoun. In order to do so it is necessary to specify the syntactic relation between the two search tokens, the controller and the target, as well as the morphological characteristics of each. The SynTagRus search query allows to do both. At least two of the target positions, attributive and predicative, are easily specifiable. In general, the attributive target is either an adjective or a pronoun that modifies a controller. Unfortunately, the SynTagRus does not offer a ‘pronoun’ option while specifying the token’s part of speech.20 Thus, the target token was set to be a plural adjective attributively modifying the controller token, a singular noun. The search yielded 545 hits which had to be manually checked, since compliance with the above mentioned settings provides no guarantee that the number mismatch is caused precisely by HA. In fact, the results show two other types of agreement, namely agreement with quantified expressions 20 Thus, specifically searching for examples with pronoun controllers or targets in relative and personal pronoun positions is not possible in SynTagRus. and agreement with the conjoined and comitative noun phrases.21 Consider an example of each: [20] Agreement with a quantified expression … появля-ют-ся сразу два одноглаз-ых appear-PL-REFL immediately two.NOM one-eyed-PL.GEN персонаж-а … character-SG.GEN ‘Two one-eyed characters immediately appear’ (Karasev Zanimatelnaya Estetika 2018, Russian National Corpus) This example is compliant with the above mentioned search settings - the plural adjective modifies a singular noun. However, the mismatch in number has nothing to do with the expression of respect in this particular context. It is the numeral два ‘two’ that requires the noun to be genitive and singular (Xxxxxxx 2006:85). [21] Agreement with a conjoined noun phrase … явно неземн-ые Луна и Xxxxxx … evidently unearthly-PL Xxxx.XX CONJ Xxxxxxx.XX ‘The clearly ethereal Moon and Jupiter’ (Karasev Zanimatelnaya Estetika 2018, Russian National Corpus) [22] Agreement with a comitative phrase … пожил-ые муж с жен-ою … elderly-PL xxxxxxx.XX CONJ wife-SG ‘Elderly husband and wife’ (K...
