Overview
- 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)
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
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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
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