Simple Grammar Question

[John Langran]

It is not as simple as that. e.g. Vysotsky uses both accusative and genitive 
after nye lyubit.
Я не люблю фатального исхода. От жизни никогда не устаю. Я не люблю любое 
время года, Когда веселых песен не пою
There is something special about feminine singular nouns. I think the late 
Terry Wade has the answer.
"Comprehensive Russian Grammar": page 96 "Nouns in -a or -ya are more prone 
to appear in the accusative after
negated transitive verbs than are other nouns"
and lower down the same page a possible reason for this, although it would 
not apply to "literatura":
"To avoid ambiguity it is better to replace, say, он не читает книги by он 
не читает книгу, otherwise it is not clear whether книги is genitive 
singular or accusative plural". (quote shortened)

John Langran
www.ruslan.co.uk



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From: <mrojavi1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Simple Grammar Question


> Dear Nola,
>
> We should use the accus. case with the verb liubit: ne liubliu chai,
> gazety (plural), dozhd'--I don't like certain things.
>
> Rozental' has explanations.
>
> Regards,
> Marina
>
>
> On Thu, June 18, 2009 16:58, Nola wrote:
>> I apologise for asking this Russian grammar question on this list, but so
>> far, I can't get a satisfactory answer yet anywhere else.I have asked
>> Russians, who know what should be said, but not why or about the rule
>> which applies.
>> I am having trouble with a sentence which could have either genitive or
>> accusative case applied to the last word. The Russian speakers told me to
>> use the accusative case. Okay..I will, but I need to know a rule so that 
>> I
>> can know when to choose accusative over genitive in others like this.
>> Àííà Áîðèñîâíà íå ëþáèò ëèòåðàòóðó.( or ëèòåðàòóðû?)
>> Nola
>>
>>
>>
>>
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