Russian genitives, non-referentiality, and the property-type hypothesis (original) (raw)

2007, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Stony Brook Meeting

Similar parallels are found with intensional verbs like ždat''expect, wait for'; correlations between Genitive of Negation (Gen Neg) and Genitive of Intensionality (Gen Int) were described by Dahl, Neidle (1988), Kagan. The similarity between non-veridicality in the sentential domain and non-specificity in the nominal domain has been explored by Kiparsky and Kiparsky (1970), Dahl, Farkas (1985), and others. We suggest that both Subjunctive and the Russian Gen often signal the absence of a presupposition or entailment: of truth, and ...

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