The Role of Case in Russian Syntax

Typology and the formal modelling of syncretism

“…Examples of this approach include Bierwisch 1967, Carstairs 1987, Noyer 1997, Bobaljik 2002, Williams 1994, Neidle 1988, Blevins 1995, Calabrese 1998, Lumsden 1992 andWiese 1996. However, though various constraints on syncretism have been proposed, either explicitly or implicitly, there has been no systematic attempt to assess these claims against the evidence of more than a handful of languages.…”

Property-Denoting NPs and Non-Canonical Genitive Case

“…Before I turn to listing these factors, it is important to emphasize that all of them merely constitute tendencies in the choice of Case. The existence of some of these tendencies has been noted by Timberlake (1986), Neidle (1988), Bailyn (1997) and Babyonyshev (2003) ii) Number In addition, genitive is more often assigned to plural NPs than to singular ones. Thus, Genitive of Negation is acceptable in (6a) but not in (6b).…”

“…However, following Neidle (1988), I believe that a unifying analysis should be proposed. This conclusion is drawn on the basis of numerous similarities that hold between the two phenomena.…”

“…One of the exceptions, a unified account of the two phenomena that makes reference to both syntactic and semantic properties involved, is provided by Neidle (1988). Neidle proposes that the choice of Case is determined by the [Quantifying] feature ([+/-Q]).…”

Predicting Complex Syntactic Structure in Real Time: Processing of Negative Sentences in Russian

“…Before continuing, it is worth substantiating the claim that the negative particle 'ne' is indeed a head that projects a negation phrase NegP ('sentential negation', ne + V  [ NegP Neg (Neidle, 1988;de Freitas, 2004).…”