The role of verb semantics in genitive alternations: genitive of negation and genitive of intensionality

Our goal is to capture what the different instances of Gen/Nom and Gen/Acc have in common semantically while still respecting the multiplicity of factors involved and not predicting more uniformity than is actually found. Our main idea is to treat Gen Neg and Gen Int as a “diathesis shift”, a “demo...

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Main Authors: Barbara H Partee, Vladimir Borschev, Elena Paducheva, Yakov Testelets, Igor Yanovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2012-01-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/229