Out of the two forms of genitive plural of the Ukrainian noun stat't'a ‘article’, namely stattej and statej, the former has been assumed to be purely Ukrainian, whereas the latter a Russified one. The paper attempts to demonstrate that the relationship is not necessarily as simple, moreover, that such an interpretation does not altogether answer the question of why only the form of genitive plu...

On the basis of 698 instances of Saxon genitive and of-construction, the present paper explores the use of these modifiers from a corpus-linguistic perspective. In particular, the influence of the lexical class of the modifier, the semantic relationship expressed by the constructions, and weight and syntactic complexity is analysed. It will be argued that the variation of genitive and of-constr...

This paper incorporates morphological markedness constraints into a framework in which morphology and phonology directly interact, modeled with interleaving of morphological and phonological constraints in serial OT (Wolf 2008, 2009). Morphological markedness constraints are constraints against realization (or spell-out) of morphologically marked feature sets. The empirical data motivating this...

In our ongoing project called “In the Web of Words” (WoW) we aimed to create a complex search interface that incorporates a deep web search engine module based on a Hungarian question processor. One of the most crucial part of the system was the transformation of genitive relations to adequate SQL queries, since e.g. questions begin with “Who” and “What” mostly contain such a relation. The geni...

In this paper we examine the relationships among diathesis alternations, the semantics of verbs, and the referential status of NPs. Some diathesis shifts are argued to involve changes in the semantic type of NP arguments, including possible alternations between ‘referential’ NPs and ‘property-type’ NPs. We explore applications of this approach to alternations of Genitive and Accusative, both wi...

The paper deals with the category of possession as a linguistic and semantics English possessive substantive constructions. Possession is universal, fundamental complex heterogeneous meaning plane expression, therefore there are several directions its study in linguistics. In broad sense, expresses spatial relations between two objects, when one them considered an element “personal sphere” anot...

Object relatives (ORs) have been reported to cause heavier processing loads than subject relatives (SRs) in both preand postnominal position (prenominal relatives: Miyamoto & Nakamura 2003, Kwon 2008, Ueno & Garnsey 2008; postnominal relatives: King & Just 1991, King & Kutas 1995, Traxler et al. 2002). In this article, we report the results of two eye-tracking studies of Korean prenominal relat...

In our work on the Russian Genitive of Negation (Borschev and Partee 1998a, 1998b, 2002a, 2002b, 2002c, Partee and Borschev 2002, 2004b, In press), we address the semantics of the Genitive of Negation construction and the interplay of lexical, compositional, and contextual factors. In this paper we focus on one interesting semantic proposal that has arisen recently (Kagan 2005, Partee and Borsc...

In this paper I present two classes of double object constructions in Modern Greek, i.e., the genitive, as well as the double accusative, ditransitive constructions. I show that these two classes differ from one another in that not both of them permit derivational processes such as the formation of adjectival passives. I also look at the case properties associated with the verbs which head Mode...

The species named Alloiococcus otitis by Aguirre and Collins (1, 2) should be renamed Aloiococcus otitidis. Rule 12c of the Bacteriological Code (3) states that a specific epithet must be treated as an adjective, as a substantive in apposition in the nominative case, or as a substantive in the genitive case. "A. otitis" would belong to the second category ("otitis," the nominative case, meaning...