genitive case in "chto novogo?"

[Georges Adassovsky]

>Katya Krivinkova wrote:
>
>>Problem:
>>
>>(1) chto u tebja est' zheltogo?
>>
>>(2) u tebja est' chto-nibud' zheltoe?

Georges Fowler answered:

>There is a partitive sense in (1) which is missing from (2), isn't there?
>'What have you got that's yellow' vs. 'something yellow'. Perhaps the logic
>of (1) is that chto is considered to be an element of the set of yellow
>things, while yellow is simply applied attributively to chto-nibud'.

"cto u tebja est' zheltoe" seems possible, as well as "u tebja est'
cego-nibud' zheltogo". It depends on the context : the utterer may want to
see the yellow as a part, or as a whole.
If we add a noun :
"u tebja est' zheltaja rubashka ?"
"u tebja est' zheltoj kraski ?"

In any case these forms are colloquial.

Georges,
Tahiti.