Getting impersonal: Case, agreement, and distributive po-phrases in Russian (original) (raw)
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This research explores the syntactic and semantic behavior of distributive po-phrases in Russian, particularly in relation to Case assignment and their role as subjects in unergative predicates. Through detailed analysis, it addresses puzzles associated with Case variation when numerals are present and the unique placement of distributive po in different sentence structures. The findings suggest that numerals serve as the heads of these phrases, influencing Case assignment, and clarify the distribution of distributive po in conjunction with verb agreement.
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