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- Sheds new light on the genitive/accusative opposition phenomenon in Russian, an object case alternation that has long puzzled linguists
- Provides a new semantic analysis of genitive objects
- Reveals a semantic parallel between genitive Case and subjunctive mood
- Relates genitive objects in Russian to other instances of differential object marking
- Explains the relation between case and specificity, definiteness, scope, number and aspect ?
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 89)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Definite objects
- Definiteness and DOM in other languages
- Desiderative predicates
- Differential object marking
- Directive predicates
- Epistemic predicates
- Fiction predicates
- GenNeg Assignment to Specific and Definite NPs
- Genitive objects and perfective verbs
- Intensional genitive
- Irrealis Genitive in Negative Contexts
- Negative concord items
- Non-canonical genitive case
- Partitive genitive
- Russian linguistics
- Subjunctive mood
- Weak intesional predicates
- case alternations
- genitive of negation
- intensional predicates
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Kagan … takes on the goal of unifying the Intensional Genitive and the Genitive of Negation as one phenomenon. … This book will be of primary interest to Russianists, as it provides a well-supported analysis of a much-discussed linguistic puzzle in Russian … . will be of primary interest to those interested in non-canonical genitive use in Russian. … It is well researched, well-argued and makes an important contribution to the topic of genitive objects and to the field of Russian linguistics in general.” (Lauren Ressue, The Linguist List, January, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
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Modi'in, Israel
Olga Kagan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian
Book Subtitle: A Study of Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive Case
Authors: Olga Kagan
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5225-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5224-5Published: 11 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8195-4Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5225-2Published: 11 October 2012
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 186