Where Grammar Meets Use: Towards the Normativization of Russian Future Participles (Or Perhaps Not?)

The scientific debate on the existence of a set of morphologized future participles in the inventory of tempo-aspectual forms of contemporary (standard) Russian has been relevant at least since Meletij Smotrickij’s Slavonic Grammar (1619). Relying on data gathered from the General Internet Corpus of Russian, this contribution explores the interplay between normative grammar and corpus linguistics, addressing the topic from a qualitative point of view, i.e. whether or not and to what extent future participles are structurally prevalent in the grammatical system of contemporary Russian and, consequently, whether prescriptivists should implement these data into their grammatical (normative) model.