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The role of verb semantics in genitive alternations: genitive of negation and genitive of intensionality

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Our goal is to capture what the different instances of Gen/Nom and Gen/Acc have in common semantically while still respecting the multiplicity of factors involved and not predicting more uniformity than is actually found. Our main idea is to treat Gen Neg and Gen Int as a “diathesis shift”, a “demotion” into a noncanonical subject or object position, semantically of type (e,t), thereby accounting for “decreased individuation/ referentiality”.

Source: Oslo Studies in Language

DOI: 10.5617/osla.229

Authors: Barbara H Partee, Vladimir Borschev, Elena Paducheva, Yakov Testelets, Igor Yanovich

Institutions: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian State University for the Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2286439595

FWCI: 7.154

Cites: 25

Cited by: 37

Related to: 10