Tore Nesset

Biographic Data

ID525633
NAMETore Nesset
GIVEN NAMESTore
FAMILY NAMENesset
SIGNATURENESSET T
AFFILIATIONSUiT The Arctic University of Norway
ORCID0000-0003-1308-3506
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Non-prototypical Aspectual Clusters and Corpus Data: The grozit’ ‘threaten’ cluster in Russian

    Open AccessAnastasia Makarova, Tore NessetARTICLEZeitschrift für Slawistik2026

    Aspectual clusters and aspectual triplets have received considerable attention in scholarly literature on Russian aspect but are normally not treated together. In the present study, we offer a detailed corpus-based analysis of a non-prototypical cluster that includes a triplet. Exploring the verb grozit’ ‘threaten’ and aspectually related verbs, we demonstrate that the three perfective near-synonyms pogrozit’, prigrozit’ and ugrozit’ are semantic…

  • Years of Russian studies in Tromsø

    Open AccessTore NessetARTICLEPoljarnyj vestnik2025

    In the fall semester of 1974, Associate Professor Ingvild Broch received the first four students of Russian at the University of Tromsø. In November 2024, we celebrated the first half century of Russian studies at our university, which is now known as UiT The Arctic University of Norway. In this article, I provide a brief historical sketch and a report from the anniversary seminar

  • Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The competition between instrumental, long form nominative and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectives

    Open AccessTore Nesset, Laura A JandaARTICLERussian Linguistics2025

    Based on data from the syntactic subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, we undertake a quantitative analysis of the competition between Russian predicate adjectives in the instrumental (e.g., pustym ‘empty’), the long form nominative (e.g., pustoj ‘empty’), and the short form nominative (e.g., pust ‘empty’). It is argued that the choice of adjective form is partly determined by the context. Four (nearly) categorical rules are proposed based on…

  • Shortening mechanisms in construction morphology: The Russian spec-N construction

    Open AccessTore Nesset, Martina Björklund et al.ARTICLEMorphology2024References: 20

    This study presents an in-depth analysis of Russian stub compounds in spec 'special' and their competition with the corresponding full adjective special'nyj 'special' followed by a noun. Couched in Construction Morphology the corpus-based analysis addresses four understudied areas in theoretical and Russian morphology: shortening mechanisms, competition between morphological words and multiword expressions, blocking, and compounding in Russian. I…

  • “Threat” in Russian – A Linguistic Perspective

    Anastasia Makarova, Tore NessetARTICLEScando-Slavica2023

    The present study explores a frequent concept in modern media discourse, namely “threat,” based on a corpus analysis of the two Russian nouns groza and ugroza from 1800 to 2020. We show that the two words share a network of submeanings, but that they have different centers of gravity in the network. We identify four submeanings and suggest that the distribution of the two words has changed over time. In present-day Russian, groza is dominant in t…

  • The long and the short of it: Russian predicate adjectives with zero copula

    Open AccessTore Nesset, Laura A JandaARTICLERussian Linguistics2023

    The present article presents an empirical investigation of the choice between so-called long (e.g., prostoj ‘simple’) and short (e.g., prost ‘simple’) forms of predicate adjectives in Russian, based on data from the syntactic subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus. The data under scrutiny suggest that short forms represent the dominant option for predicate adjectives. It is proposed that long forms are descriptions of thematic participants in s…

  • A network of allostructions: Quantified subject constructions in Russian

    Open AccessTore Nesset, Laura A JandaARTICLECognitive Linguistics2023Cited by: 1References: 10

    This article contributes to Construction Grammar, historical linguistics, and Russian linguistics through an in-depth corpus study of predicate agreement in constructions with quantified subjects. Statistical analysis of approximately 39,000 corpus examples indicates that these constructions constitute a network of constructions (“allostructions”) with various preferences for singular or plural agreement. Factors pull in different directions, and…

  • Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions

    Tore Nesset, Laura A Janda et al.BOOKDirections for Pedagogical…2022

    How can insights from Construction Grammar (CxG) be applied to foreign language learning (FLL) and foreign language teaching (FLT)? This volume explores several aspects of Pedagogical Construction Grammar, with a specific look at issues relevant to second language acquisition, FLL, and FLT. The contributions in this volume discuss a wide range of constructions, as well as different resources, methodologies, and data used to learn constructions in…

  • Norwegian Compounds and Corresponding Constructions in Russian: The Case of Nouns with Deverbal Heads

    Tore NessetARTICLEScando-Slavica2022

    This article presents a corpus study of Norwegian compounds with deverbal heads (e.g., papirproduksjon ‘paper production’ from produsere ‘produce’) and corresponding constructions in Russian, such as the genitive (proizvodstvo bumagi ‘paper production’), the adjective (bumažnoe proizvodstvo ‘paper production’), the preposition (priglašenie na užin ‘dinner invitation’), and compound constructions (zemlevladelec ‘landowner’). Test of the “Non-Head …

  • Russian feminitives: What can corpus data tell us

    Open AccessTore Nesset, Alexander Piperski et al.ARTICLERussian Linguistics2022

  • Constructions, their families and their neighborhoods: The case of durak durakom ‘a fool times two’

    Open AccessLaura A Janda, Mikhail Kopotev et al.ARTICLERussian Linguistics2020

    On the basis of data from the Russian National Corpus, we analyze the meanings and structure of the syntactic construction observed in phrases like durak durakom ‘fool- nom.sg fool- ins.sg’ , which we term the ‘NOM∼INS construction’. We argue that the construction constitutes a network of three closely related subcategories, which we refer to as ‘Extreme’, ‘Paragon’ and ‘Discourse Change’. It is furthermore shown that a diachronic change has take…

  • A long birth: The development of gender-specific paucal constructions in Russian

    Open AccessTore NessetARTICLEDiachronica2020

    This article investigates the diachronic development of Russian numeral constructions consisting of a paucal numeral ( dva “two”, tri “three”, četyre “four”) followed by an adjective and a noun. Based on statistical analysis of more than 6,000 corpus examples, it is shown that a split took place in the second half of the twentieth century when feminine nouns developed a different agreement pattern from that of masculine and neuter nouns. This spl…

  • Prezidentskie vybory vs. vybory prezidenta: How to choose

    Open AccessLaura A Janda, Tore Nesset et al.ARTICLERussian Linguistics2019

  • Do Russian paucal numerals govern the genitive? Evidence from stress placement

    Open AccessTore Nesset, Maria NordrumARTICLERussian Linguistics2019

  • The decade construction rivalry in Russian: Using a corpus to study historical linguistics

    Tore Nesset, Anastasia MakarovaARTICLEDiachronica2018

    This article addresses the diachronic development of so-called rival forms, i.e., words or grammatical constructions that appear to be synonyms, based on a detailed empirical analysis of two seemingly synonymous constructions in Russian. Corresponding to the English ‘decade construction’ in the twenties , Russian has two rival constructions, viz. v dvadcatye gody [ lit . “in the twentieth years”] (with the numeral and noun in the accusative) and …

  • “Cyclic” time in the history of Russian: Culture and language internal factors

    Tore NessetARTICLEStudies in Language2016

    This article offers a diachronic analysis of the concept of “cyclic” time in Russian, more specifically of temporal adverbials such as utrom ‘in the morning’ and vesnoj ‘in the spring’ that refer to the diurnal and annual temporal cycles in nature. It is argued that evidence from diachrony bears on important theoretical questions: Is the sensitivity to “cyclic” time in language due to cultural factors? How does the external factor of culture inte…

  • Does historical linguistics need the Cognitive Commitment? Prosodic change in East Slavic

    Open AccessTore NessetARTICLECognitive Linguistics2016References: 2

    On the basis of a case study of the so-called jer shift in Slavic, I argue that the Cognitive Commitment is essential for an adequate analysis of language change. While the “social turn” and the “quantitative turn” open up important perspectives and provide new opportunities for cognitive historical linguistics, the Cognitive Commitment remains essential because it facilitates elegant and insightful analyses and paves the way for more general hyp…

  • Constructions and language change: From genitive to accusative objects in Russian

    Tore Nesset, Julia KuznetsovaARTICLEDiachronica2015

    This article reports on a corpus study of ongoing language change in Russian, whereby genitive-governing verbs like bojat’sja “fear” combine with objects in the accusative in addition to the traditionally normative genitive. While the use of the accusative is still not very frequent in Contemporary Standard Russian, we demonstrate that it is increasing and that a number of factors such as individuation (animacy), grammatical voice, frequency and …

  • Old Church Slavonic "Byti" Part Two: Constructional Profiling Analysis

    Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Laura A Janda et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2014

  • Old Church Slavonic "Byti" Part One: Grammatical Profiling Analysis

    Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Laura A Janda et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2014

  • The History of the Russian Semelfactive: The Development of a Radial Category

    Tore NessetARTICLEJournal of Slavic Linguistics2013

    This paper explores the history of suffixed semelfactive verbs in Russian, i.e., verbs like maxnut’ ‘wave once’ with the - nu - suffix. It is argued that the semelfactive aktionsart is best analyzed as a radial category organized around a prototype with four properties: uniformity, instantaneousness, non-resultativity, and single occurrence, which are defined and discussed in the article. This paper further demonstrates that there is a small grou…

  • Space-time asymmetries: Russian v ‘in(to)’ and the North Slavic Temporal Adverbial Continuum

    Open AccessAnastasia Makarova, Tore NessetARTICLERussian Linguistics2013

  • Making choices in Russian: Pros and cons of statistical methods for rival forms

    Open AccessR Harald Baayen, Anna Endresen et al.ARTICLERussian Linguistics2013

  • How ‘here’ and ‘now’ in Russian and English establish joint attention in TV news broadcasts

    Open AccessTore Nesset, Anna Endresen et al.ARTICLERussian Linguistics2013

  • Space-Time Asymmetries in Russian Prepositions: Preliminary Analysis

    Open AccessTore NessetARTICLEPoljarnyj vestnik2012

    This study, which focuses on the Russian prepositions za ‘behind', pod ‘under', na ‘on' and v ‘in', shows that there are systematic differences in case usage between spatial and temporal constructions. These space-time asymmetries are related to important questions about time and space in linguistics, cognitive science and philosophy