Andrei Anatolievich Zalizniak In Memoriam

Borschev, Vladimir; Partee, Barbara H.

doi:10.1353/jsl.2018.0001

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“…Numerous linguists have noted genitive NPs lack EC, while accusative objects optionally communicate EC (Chvany, 1975;Babby, 1980;Borschev & Partee, 2002;Harves, 2002Harves, , 2013Partee & Borschev, 2004;Kagan, 2007Kagan, , 2010Kagan, , 2013Borschev et al, 2007). Borschev & Partee (2002) explain existentiality involves an entity (THING) relative to a location (LOC), though the LOC need not be explicit in Russian.…”

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Weather/season expressions, existential commitment, and the genitive of negation

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2021

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This paper presents data from Russian exhibiting seemingly variable unaccusative and unergative behavior. Russian motion-verb-weather/season expressions pass several accepted diagnostics for unaccusativity yet fail the genitive of negation—the diagnostic most widely agreed to show unaccusativity in Russian. I argue this failure results from a presupposition of existential commitment, which can be canceled. Crucial to this analysis is the assumption that Neg0 is always a secondary—not obligatory—licenser and arguments communicating existential commitment exist within a small clause structure. This analysis accounts for seemingly exceptional unergative clauses and has implications for what the genitive of negation reveals about a predicate structure.

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Weather/season expressions, existential commitment, and the genitive of negation

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2021

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Andrei Anatolievich Zalizniak In Memoriam

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Weather/season expressions, existential commitment, and the genitive of negation

Weather/season expressions, existential commitment, and the genitive of negation

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