Abstract
Our goal is to capture what the different instances of Gen/Nom and Gen/Acc have in common semantically while still respecting the multiplicity of factors involved and not predicting more uniformity than is actually found. Our main idea
 is to treat Gen Neg and Gen Int as a “diathesis shift”, a “demotion” into a noncanonical subject or object position, semantically of type (e,t), thereby accounting for “decreased individuation/ referentiality”.
Highlights
Genitive alternations, i.e. alternations between Genitive and Nominative case and between Genitive and Accusative case, exist to various degrees in Slavic and Baltic languages
In this paper we focus on Russian Subject Genitive of Negation (Gen Neg) and Object Gen Neg, and only briefly discuss Genitive of Intensionality (Gen Int)
Subject Gen Neg can occur with any verb that can support the presupposed equivalence
Summary
I.e. alternations between Genitive and Nominative case and between Genitive and Accusative case, exist to various degrees in Slavic and Baltic languages. The core of the proposal of Borschev & Partee (1998, 2002b) is that the distinction marked by Subj Gen Neg is a distinction between existential sentences and locative (predicational) sentences, two sentences types that may both involve verbs that can express a relation between a thing and a location (explicit or implicit).
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