Abstract: This dataset provides replication data for an article on differential object marking in early Slavonic. The article uses extensive treebank data from the PROIEL and TOROT treebanks to track the much-debated rise of the animacy category in Russian, which in this article will be analysed as a change from at least partly definiteness-driven differential object marking in Old Church Slavonic via constructionally conditioned variation in Old East Slavonic to fully fledged animacy subgender marking in late Middle Russian. The change is interesting fr...
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