Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian
Olga Kagan
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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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Definite objects, Epistemic predicates, case alternations, Intensional genitive, Genitive objects and perfective verbs, Negative concord items, Russian linguistics, Subjunctive mood, Non-canonical genitive case, Desiderative predicates, Fiction predicates, Partitive genitive, genitive of negation, GenNeg Assignment to Specific and Definite NPs, Differential object marking, Weak intesional predicates, Definiteness and DOM in other languages, Irrealis Genitive in Negative Contexts, Directive predicates, intensional predicates