Russian Genitive of Negation Alternations: The Role of Verb Semantics
Russian Genitive of Negation Alternations: The Role of Verb Semantics
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俄语否定交替属格：动词语义的作用
DOI：
10.1080/00806765.2011.631775
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发表时间：
2011
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0.1
通讯作者：
I. Yanovich
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作者：
B. Partee;Vladimir Borschev;E. Paducheva;Y. Testelets;I. Yanovich
在斯拉夫语和波罗的海语中不同程度地存在着主格-主格和宾格-主格交替。在俄语否定句中Gen-Nom和Gen-Acc的交替是由句法、语义和形态因素共同决定的。Borschev和Partee以及本组作者的一系列论文研究了否定属格中涉及的语义因素。我们最近的工作建立在直觉的基础上，即属格NPs比它们的主格或宾格对应体“更少参考”；我们和奥尔加·卡根都认为这种减少的参照性涉及“降级”。我们已经从语义类型的角度形式化了这种降级，认为这些变化中的Gen NPs是属性类型而不是实体类型。在本文中，我们将讨论动词含义如何随着其参数类型的变化而变化。我们回顾了Borschev和parte（1998）对存在句中主语为阴性的开放类不及物动词的“漂白”处理，并将其与宾语为阴性的更异质的动词意义转移进行了比较。结果分析有助于解释主语Gen Neg和宾语Gen Neg之间的异同。
Genitive-nominative and genitive-accusative alternations exist to various degrees in Slavic and Baltic languages. In Russian the alternation of Gen-Nom and Gen-Acc in negative sentences is conditioned by a combination of syntactic, semantic, and morphological factors. A series of papers by Borschev and Partee and by the present set of authors has studied the semantic factors involved in the genitive of negation. Our recent work builds on the intuition that genitive NPs are “less referential” than their nominative or accusative counterparts; both we and Olga Kagan take that decreased referentiality to involve a “demotion”. We have formalized this demotion in terms of semantic types, arguing that Gen NPs in these alternations are of property type rather than entity type e. In this article we address how verb meanings shift along with the types of their arguments. We review the treatment of Borschev and Partee (1998) of the “bleaching” of the open class of intransitive verbs that appear in existential sentences with Subject Gen Neg, and compare it to the more heterogeneous class of shifts in verb meaning that occurs with Object Gen Neg. The resulting analysis helps to explain both the similarities and the differences between Subject Gen Neg and Object Gen Neg.