Ukr _lysta_

[Michael Flier]

Dear Loren:

        The form _lysta_ in your example is not a genitive singular, but
the expected accusative singular. A small group of semantically inanimate
masculine nouns are grammatically animate, _lyst_ among them.
        Note the recent book by Diana Wieczorek, _Ukrainskij perfekt na
-no, -to na fone polskogo perfekta,_ Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu
Wroclawskiego, 1994 (= Slavica Wratislaviensia 83).

Best regards,

Michael Flier


On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Loren A. Billings wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> This is the first of several queries I'll be posting in the next day or two
> having to do with an impersonal construction in Ukrainian (Ukr) and Polish
> (Pol).  I'd appreciate it if you'd pass these along to Ukr or Pol specialists
> at your deptartments who are off-line.
>
> In the sentence _Mnuiu oderzhano lysta_, the last word appears to be in the
> GEN.SG; is this so?  Why?
>
> Loren Billings
> billings at mailer.fsu.edu
>