Abstract
The aim of this paper is to verify if the referential ambiguity induced by intensional verbs (xotet’, želat’, trebovat’, prosit’, ždat’, iskat’, bojat’sja …) can be resolved in Russian by grammatical means, assigning accusative case to [+ specific] objects and genitive case to [- specific] objects (Partee 2005), or accusative case to [± specific] objects and genitive case [- specific] objects (Kagan 2005). This hypothesis is verified on the basis of empirical data, by analizing a corpus of 476 concrete occurrences of the VP ždat’ avtobus.
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