23.4351, Books: Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian: Kagan

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From: Jolanda Voogd [Jolanda.Voogd at springer.com]
Subject: Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian: Kagan

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Title: Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian 
Subtitle: A Study of Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive Case 
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com

Book URL: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/book/978-94-007-5224-5 

Author: Olga E. Kagan

Hardback: ISBN:  9789400752245 Pages: 204 Price: Europe EURO 99.95

Abstract:

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative complements—the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive. The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the same phenomenon, and thus require an integrated analysis. Further, that the choice of case is sensitive to factors that fuse semantics and pragmatics, and that the genitive case is assigned to objects denoting properties at the same time as they lack commitment to existence.

Kagan's subtle analysis accounts for the complex relations between case-marking and other properties, such as definiteness, specificity, number and aspect. It also reveals a correlation between the genitive case and the subjunctive mood, and relates her overarching subject matter to other instances of differential object-marking. 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)

Written In: English  (eng)

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