FrameBank: A Database of Russian Lexical Constructions

Olga Lyashevskaya, Egor Kashkin

Abstract: Russian FrameBank is a bank of annotated samples from the Russian National Corpus which documents the use of lexical constructions (e.g. argument constructions of verbs and nouns). FrameBank belongs to FrameNet-oriented resources, but unlike Berkeley FrameNet it focuses more on the morphosyntactic and semantic features of individual lexemes rather than the generalized frames, following the theoretical approaches of Construction Grammar (C. Fillmore, A. Goldberg, etc.) and of Moscow Semantic School (J.D. Apresjan, E.V. Paducheva, etc.).