Surrey Short Term Morphosyntactic Change Databases

Numerals in Russian and in Slavonic more generally are notorious for their complex syntax and morphology. In particular, quantifier phrases with the numerals dva ‘two’ , tri  ‘three’ and četyre  ‘four’  allow alternative case marking on attributive adjectives. When the phrase is in the nominative or accusative, adjectives are either in that case or they are governed by the numeral and take the genitive.