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The Genitive of Negation is a phenomenon that has long intrigued linguists. In affirmative sentences, the direct object normally occurs in the Accusative case. However, the direct object in a negative sentence often — but not always — appears in the Genitive case. The Genitive case marking on the object in a negative sentence was historically obligatory (and still is required in Polish), but the obligation to use a Genitive in this context in modern Russian is decreasing.
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See, for example, Ward (1965), who makes a similar suggestion that he attributes to Morison (1959). This idea was further developed in Klenin (1978), and is also proposed in Babby (1980a).
See also Franks (1986) for an-account in which Genitive case marking is attributed to the presence of a null quantifier.
See Chvany (1975:122) or Popova (1973) for discussion. This is less true now, though, than it was some years back.
See Barnetová, et al. (1979:691, 839) for a comparison of Czech and Russian.
See Chvany (1975) for discussion.
See discussion in Chvany (1975:157).
See Peškovskij (1956:367). Many others have discussed this observation (including Chvany, 1975:156, and Babby, 1980a:105ff.).
See also Ladusaw’s (1980) discussion of interpretive projections as being distinct from constituent structure.
See also Klenin (1978) for similar observations about the use of the Partitive Genitive.
See, for example, Ravič A. (1971:264), Academy Grammar (1980, vol.2:417).
Compare Chvany (1975), Academy Grammar (1980, vol.2:416), Ravič (1971).
See, for example, Uglitsky (1956).
See Ladusaw (1980) f or discussion.
Compare Klima (1964:13): the grammatical similarities shared by triggers and described “as resulting from the presence of a common grammatico-semantic feature to be referred to as Affective.”
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Neidle, C. (1988). Object Case Marking and the Genitive of Negation. In: The Role of Case in Russian Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2703-2_2
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