Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian

Olga Kagan

ISBN 10: 9400752245 / ISBN 13: 9789400752245

Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Okt 2012, 2012

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Neuware -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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 204 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian
• Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Okt 2012
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9400752245
• ISBN 13: 9789400752245
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 160 A x 16 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 16 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 477 grammi

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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.