Negation In Russian Research Articles

Three types of negation in Russian (on the example of A.V.Druzhinin’s texts)

The study is aimed at identifying the formal, substantive, and functional characteristics of negation-ambivalence, thereby expanding the traditional concept of negation. To achieve this goal, methods of semantic and functional analysis were used: within their framework, a matrix was developed for comparing various types of negations. As a result of using this matrix on the material of A. V. Druzhinin’s texts, the following conclusions were drawn. Negation-ambivalence differs from standard negation and oxymoron in the way it reflects reality conveyed by semantics and the number of components involved in communication. It can be argued that there are four communicative reasons for using negation-ambivalence in texts: collisions of different points of view on one object; the multidimensionality of the object itself; the complexity of the description; and speech reasons associated with the level of linguistic competence of the speaker. Negation-ambivalence is always associated with situations of choice. It can also be assumed that it is a marker of boundary states. This research can lead to a local change in scholarly thinking and the practice of perceiving linguistic communicative forms. Using negation-ambivalence as a text analysis tool allows streamlining many cases, the status of which researchers argue to this day.The study is aimed at identifying the formal, substantive, and functional characteristics of negation-ambivalence, thereby expanding the traditional concept of negation. To achieve this goal, methods of semantic and functional analysis were used: within their framework, a matrix was developed for comparing various types of negations. As a result of using this matrix on the material of A. V. Druzhinin’s texts, the following conclusions were drawn. Negation-ambivalence differs from standard negation and oxymoron in the way it reflects reality conveyed by semantics and the number of components involved in communication. It can be argued that there are four communicative reasons for using negation-ambivalence in texts: collisions of different points of view on one object; the multidimensionality of the object itself; the complexity of the description; and speech reasons associated with the level of linguistic competence of the speaker. Negation-ambivalence is always associated with situations of choice. It can also be assumed that it is a marker of boundary states. This research can lead to a local change in scholarly thinking and the practice of perceiving linguistic communicative forms. Using negation-ambivalence as a text analysis tool allows streamlining many cases, the status of which researchers argue to this day.

Constructions with negative elements ni kapli and ni razu in Russian

There are many negative polarity items in Russian reinforcing the sentential negation. It may be negative pronouns with affix ni- (ničego, ničut’, nikogo) and quantifiers grammaticalized from smallsize nouns. The paper deals with the new way to express emphatic negation and the process of reinforcement of negation due to including new markers of double negation in Russian. It analyzes the network of constructions with expressions ni kapli and ni razu based on the data from two corpora (General Internet-Corpus of Russian and Russian National Corpus). The paper describes the grammaticalization of the word kaplja ‘drop’ as a part of counting construction. The construction ni razu ne VP combines with a past tense form of a verb and expresses the negation of the experiential meaning. The new construction ni razu / ni kapli ne N arises in non-verbal sentences and expresses emphatic negation of affiliation to a category.

Accusative/Genitive Under Negation in Russian: From Syntactic Marking to Semantics

This study investigates the reasons for choosing the genitive or accusative case for propositional nouns with verbs in negative sentences. The probable reason for the recommendation in grammars to choose the genitive case with abstract nouns in negative construction is two constructions overlapping: the negative construction and the construction of descriptive predicate. The study examines 22 examples taken from the National Corpus of the Russian Language 2000-2017 with the propositional abstract object otvet (answer). The examples are divided into two groups – with the object included in the construction of the descriptive predicate and with the verb naming one proposition, and two-subject-constructions. The examples of both groups mostly contain genitive nouns, but for different reasons.

The Genitive of Negation in Russian

AbstractThis paper discusses the genitive of negation in Russian, one of the most well‐studied case alternations that exists in the language and the most well‐known diagnostic for unaccusativity. Direct objects and subjects of unaccusative predicates may occur in the genitive case under sentential negation, alternating with accusative and nominative, respectively. When these Noun Phrases (NPs) appear in the genitive, they tend to receive an indefinite, non‐specific, or existential interpretation. Recent semantic analyses of this construction argue that such NPs are best treated as properties of type <e,t>, which are the result of a type‐shifting operation. In this paper, we examine five different types of approaches in analyzing this construction and show that in spite of the range of proposals that exists, a number of issues remain. The genitive of negation presents a puzzle that lies at the heart of the syntax–semantics interface. Putting together the syntactic and semantic generalizations that have been noted for this construction in a coherent way can shed light on the overall architecture of the grammar.

Verbal aspect and negation in Russian and Czech

This article compares aspectual usage in contexts of negation in Russian and Czech narratives. It examines the four possible aspectual correspondences: Russian imperfective : Czech imperfective (common), Russian perfective : Czech perfective (common), Russian imperfective : Czech perfective (frequent), and Russian perfective : Czech imperfective (infrequent). The data is argued to support the hypothesis that aspect in Czech primarily expresses a distinction in totality, whereas aspect in Russian expresses a distinction in temporal definiteness. Aspectual usage in contexts of negated repetition is also examined. The question of grounding is considered in light of the comparative data, and it is found that previous views of grounding with regard to aspect and negation can be replaced by a more nuanced sense of grounding that accommodates variation across languages. Finally, data from other Slavic languages are adduced, which indicate that the differences discussed between Czech and Russian are symptomatic of the overall east-west division in Slavic aspect established by Dickey (2000).

Case marking in the phenomenon of the genitive of negation in Russian

Case marking in the phenomenon of the genitive of negation in Russian

Sue Brown, The syntax of negation in Russian: a Minimalist approach (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics). Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999. Pp. xii+154.

Sue Brown, The syntax of negation in Russian: a Minimalist approach (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics). Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999. Pp. xii+154. - Volume 37 Issue 1

The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach

The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach

The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach

1. Negation phenomena in Russian 2. The minimalist program 3. Negative constituents in Russian 4. The genitive of negation: Expletiveness and the asymmetry of Russian negation 5. The expression of negation References Index.

Predicate lexicosemantics and case marking under negation in Russian

Predicate lexicosemantics and case marking under negation in Russian

The perfective aspect and negation in Russian

The perfective aspect and negation in Russian

Double negation in Russian

Double negation in Russian

Existential Sentences and Negation in Russian

Existential Sentences and Negation in Russian

Existential Sentences and Negation in Russian

Existential Sentences and Negation in Russian

Genitive or Accusative after Negation in Russian

Genitive or Accusative after Negation in Russian