The Genitive of Negation (Gen Neg) in Russian involves alternation of Genitive with Nominative or Accusative under conditions which have been debated for many decades. What gives the construction its name is that Gen Neg occurs only under sentential negation; other allegedly crucial factors include topic-focus structure, unaccusativity, perspectival structure, the lexical semantics of the verb,...

Similar Meaning Often a number of means (including various cases) are used to express a set of similar conceptswith overlapping or contiguous meanings. For example, Russian has many ways to expressdirectionality in the domain of intention (many of which are roughly equivalent to English ‘for’),among them the prepositions v, na, pro, and za with the accusative case, do, dlja, radi wi...

Harbach et al. (2013) proposed the new generic name Nyx for an undescribed cavernicolous species of Culicidae discovered in a cave at Wat Tham Panthurat in Surat Thani Province of southern Thailand. The authors were not aware that the generic name was already in use for a genus in the lepidopteran family Choreutidae (Heppner, 1982). In accordance with Article 60 of the International Code of Zoo...

The use of an indefinite NP often implies that the NP’s descriptive content is instantiated by more than one individual. But do indefinites conventionally signal this notion of nonuniqueness or does nonuniqueness arise pragmatically, via reasoning about scalar alternatives? In this paper I argue that in Tagalog, indefinite bare NP patients are only able to implicate nonuniqueness if there is a ...

The paper presents a procedure for interpretation of English compounds and lkn" automatic translation of such compounds into Slavic languages and French. In tile target languages, a compound nominal is as a role to be rendered by an NP with an adjective or genitive attribute, or with an attrilmtive participle construction. The model is based on Bierwisch's theory of word formation, which in tur...

List of abbreviations. IL-information language; ZR-information record; R-reaction; R,, R,I and R,,,types of reaction; S-substantives (nouns); S,,,, S,,, and Sins,,nouns in the genitive, accusative and instrumental cases; S,-nouns of the semantic class R; SRI, SRI, and SR,,rnouns of the semantic classes R,, R,, and R,,,; F’*----a vocabulary of words having a structural analogue; V,,,-the vocabul...

The Proto-Semitic genitive ending on triptotic nouns is commonly reconstructed as *-im (unbound state)/*-i (bound state). In Akkadian, however, this case long -ī- before pronominal suffixes. Since the length of vowel unexplained, I argue that it original and Akkadian bound state -i should also be *-ī, explaining its retention in word-final position. This form seems more than Proto-West-Semitic ...

On Computing Subcategorization Frames of French Deverbal Nouns (Case of Genitive) Fine dependency analysis needs exact information on the subcategoriziation frames of lexical units. These frames being well studied for the verbs, we are interested in this paper by the case of the noun deverbals. Our main goal is to calculate the subcategoriziation frame of deverbals in French from that of the so...

Using Tagalog as a case study, this paper provides an analysis of a cross-linguistically well attested phenomenon, namely, cases in which a bare NP’s syntactic position is linked to its interpretation as definite or indefinite. Previous approaches to this phenomenon, including analyses of Tagalog, appeal to specialized interpretational rules like Diesing’s Mapping Hypothesis. I argue that such ...