Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

Andreas Johansson ikrí:


> Hardly. Any remotely bureaucratic text written in the west will be brimful
with
> sentences like "investigations into the alleged voting fraud in Peter's poll
> were undertaken" where the finite verb is really just providing moral support
> for the noun phrase which describes what happened.
Now imagine that according to certain statistics, an average Russian
bureaucratic text has 5 nouns in genitive chain per one verb (usu. in passive or
impersonal 3pl.)

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