The Role of Case in Russian Syntax

This manuscript is a revision of my 1982 MIT dissertation of the same name. A previous version of sections of chapters 1 and 5 appeared as 'Case Agreement in Russian', in The Mental Representation of Gram matical Relations, edited by Joan Bresnan, MIT Press, 1983. I am grateful to MIT Press for permission to reproduce parts of that article here. I would like to express my appreciation to Catherine V. Chvany, who has read several versions of this manuscript over the years, and provided encouragement and invaluable comments. Thanks go also to Johanna Nichols whose careful reading and useful suggestions have improved the book. I am also deeply grateful to Joan Bresnan, Ken Hale, Morris Halle, Beth Levin, and Jane Simpson for helpful discussions of the material contained herein. For sharing their native intuitions, special thanks go to Alina Israeli, Boris Katz, and Evgenij Pinsky, and to Liza Chernyak, Volodja Gitin, Victoria Koff, Larissa Levin, Victoria Schiller, and Elena Semeka-Pankra tova. Joyce Friedman, Beth Levin, and Jane Simpson kindly provided assistance with bibliographical references and proofreading. This manuscript was prepared using the computer facilities at Boston University, and lowe a large debt of gratitude to the following people for providing access to equipment and technical assistance: William H. Henneman, Philip Budne, Barry Shein, and Paul Blanchard. IX INTRODUCTION The study of case, once primarily of interest to philologists, has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves from syntacticians.

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1. Overview of Case in Russian.- 1. Case in Russian.- 2. The Representation of Case.- 3. Assignment of Case.- 4. The Case of Adjectives.- 5. Agreement.- 6. Second Predicate Modifiers.- 2. Object Case Marking and The Genitive of Negation.- 1. Lexically Governed Alternation.- 2. Genitive of Negation.- 3. Distinct Mechanisms for Genitive Marking.- 4. Other Types of Negation.- 5. Scope, Interpretation, and Distribution of [+Q].- 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?.- 3. Formalization of the Rule of Demotion.- 4. Numeral Phrases and Quantifier Phrases.- 1. Numeral Phrases.- 2. Quantifier Phrases.- 3. Disagreement about Non-agreeing Phrases.- 4. One Million.- 5. Summary.- 5. Subject Case Marking and Case Agreement of Modifiers.- 1. Data.- 2. Adjuncts and Complements.- 3. Agreement and Control Relations.- 4. Comparison with Alternative Accounts.- 5. Conclusions.- 6. Consequences for a Theory of Case.- 1. Long-Distance Phenomena and Control Relations.- 2. Toward a Theory of Russian Case.- 3. LFG and the Theory of Case.- 4. Conclusions.- Appendix I: Abbreviations and Transliteration.- 1. List of Abbreviations for Sentence Glosses.- 2. Transliteration.- Appendix II: Declension Paradigms.- Appendix III: Lexical Functional Grammar.- 1. Organization.- 2. Phrase Structure Rules.- 3. Lexical Entries.- 4. Lexical Redundancy Rules.- 5. Functional Well-Formedness.- 6. Possible Rules.- 7. Theory of Control and Complementation.- 7.1. Complements vs. Adjuncts.- 7.2. Open Complements.- 7.3. Open Adjuncts.- 7.4. Closed Complements.- 7.5. Closed Adjuncts.- 7.6. The Constituency of Complements.- Index of Names.- Indexof Subjects.