The Role of Case in Russian Syntax [Hardcover]

1. Overview of Case in Russian.- 1. Case in Russian.- 2. The Representation of Case.- 3. Assignment of Case.- 3.1. Phrase Structure Annotations.- 3.2. Case Assignment by Prepositions.- 3.3. Russian Phrase Structure Rules.- 3.4. Summary.- 4. The Case of Adjectives.- 5. Agreement.- 5.1. Features: Number, Gender, Person, and Case.- 5.2. Concord.- 5.3. Animacy.- 5.4. An Apparent Agreement Paradox.- 6. Second Predicate Modifiers.- 2. Object Case Marking and The Genitive of Negation.- 1. Lexically Governed Alternation.- 1.1. Semantic Considerations.- 1.2. Historical Evolution.- 1.3. Formal Account.- 1.3.1. Natural Semantic Class.- 1.3.2. Alternation and Case Features.- 2. Genitive of Negation.- 2.1. Semantic Considerations.- 2.2. Historical Evolution.- 2.3. Formal Account.- 2.3.1. Scope-Marking.- 2.3.2. Scope of Negation: Interpretation.- 3. Distinct Mechanisms for Genitive Marking.- 3.1. Null Q?.- 3.2. Sources of Genitive Marking.- 3.2.1. Partitive Genitive.- 3.2.2. Genitive of Negation.- 3.2.3. Distinct Processes.- 4. Other Types of Negation.- 4.1. Net.- 4.2. Constituent Negation.- 5. Scope, Interpretation, and Distribution of [+Q].- 5.1. Formal Representation.- 5.2. Genitive Case Marking and Scope.- 5.3. Other Correlations with Genitive Marking.- 5.3.1. Individuation.- 5.3.2. Morphological Tendencies.- 6. Accusative/Genitive Alternation and Polarity Sensitivity.- 7. The Feature [Q] and Semantics.- 8. Summary.- 3. Apparent Genitive Subjects Within the Scope of Negation.- 1. Demotion.- 2. Do Genitive Subjects Exist?.- 2.1. Agreement.- 2.2. Gerund Constructions.- 2.3. Reflexives.- 2.4. Word Order.- 3. Formalization of the Rule of Demotion.- 3.1. Predictions: Transitive Verbs.- 3.2. Further Consequences of Demotion.- 3.3. Interaction with Other Lexical Redundancy Rules.- 3.3.1. Passive Forms.- 3.3.2. -sja Forms.- 3.4. Non-demoted Subjects.- 3.5. Genitive Marking and Grammatical Functions.- 3.6. Indefiniteness.- 4. Numeral Phrases and Quantifier Phrases.- 1. Numeral Phraseslc(