Непричёсанные мысли по поводу «Академической грамматики современного русского языка»: на примере численно-именных словосочетаний

A new academic grammar of Russian must satisfy three basic requirements: it must be 1) active, or oriented from Meaning to Text, that is, to specify ways to express syntactic relations as well as derivational and inflectional meanings; 2) formal, that is, to present information via rules of the form Х ⇔ Y | C (supplied with necessary explanations); and 3) in accordance with a dictionary (such as Ju. Apresjan’s “Active Dictionary of Russian”). As an extended illustration, the paper offers a fragment of the description of Russian numeral-noun phrases, such as polstakana ‘half of a glass’, dvadcatʹ odin stakan ‘twenty one glasses’, tri stakana ‘three glasses’, pjatʹdesjat stakanov ‘fifty glasses’, tysjači tri stakanov ‘approximately three thousand glasses’, etc.: five deep-syntactic and four surface-syntactic rules, which ensure the construction of such phrases. Two so-called agreement operators are presented in full: for the agreement of a numeral with the quantified noun and for the agreement of a noun with the quantifying numeral. Russian numeral phrases (= number names), such as tri milliona šestʹsot tri tysjači vosemʹdesjat dva ‘3,603,082’ are characterized. The description is carried out in the “Meaning-Text” theoretical framework. A small glossary of relevant terms and a series of linguistic comments on interesting details of numerals’ behavior are included.