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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Main Author: Žiga Pirnat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2019-03-01
Series:Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies
Online Access:https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/sjsls/article/view/7358

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