Welcome to the project website on the Russian Genitive of Negation and the integration of lexical and compositional semantics, supported by the National Science Foundation grant BSC-0419311, September 1, 2004 – August 31, 2007. This project is affiliated with the UMass Amherst Department of Linguistics.

Project Goals

  • The integration of lexical and compositional semantics, a long-term goal;
  • A better understanding of the semantics of the Russian Genitive of Negation (Gen Neg), a construction which offers intriguing challenges for the first goal; and
  • The integration of Russian lexical semantics with Western formal semantics, a “broader-impact goal”, important in its own right, and in our view, a particularly promising way to approach the first two goals.

Project Proposal

You can read the project proposal (January 2004) here.

Progress Report

Download a pdf file of the cumulative annual report for Years 1 and 2 here.

 

Investigators

Barbara H. Partee, Principal Investigator
Vladimir Borschev, Co-Principal Investigator