Genesis of the Genitive of Negation in Balto-Slavic and Its Evidence in Contemporary Slovenian
Genitive of negation is a Balto-Slavic syntactic rule that governs the transformation of accusative complements of transitive verbs or subjects of existential constructions in positive sentences to genitive complements in negative sentences. At present, this change is mandatory in Slovenian, Polish,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
2019-03-01
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Series: | Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies |
Online Access: | https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/sjsls/article/view/7358 |