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Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian - A Study of Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive Case (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian - A Study of Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive Case (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 89
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The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a
decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this
perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes
two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative
complements-the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive.
The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the
same phenomenon, and thus require an integrated analysis. Further,
that the choice of case is sensitive to factors that fuse semantics
and pragmatics, and that the genitive case is assigned to objects
denoting properties at the same time as they lack commitment to
existence. Kagan's subtle analysis accounts for the complex
relations between case-marking and other properties, such as
definiteness, specificity, number and aspect. It also reveals a
correlation between the genitive case and the subjunctive mood, and
relates her overarching subject matter to other instances of
differential object-marking.
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