Project Description

Table of Contents

1. Integration of Lexical and Compositional Semantics
   1. Background and Long-Term Goals
   2. Western Formal Semantics and Moscow School Lexical Semantics
   3. Broader Impact: Deepen Intellectual Contact Between Russian and U.S. Linguists
2. Genitive of Negation: Background
   1. The Construction(s) in Russian
   2. Variation Across Speakers, Time, and Languages
3. Hypotheses and Issues Concerning the Genitive of Negation
   1. Subject Genitive of Negation: Existential vs. Predicative Sentences
      1. Babby on “Declarative” and “Existential” sentences
      2. Our view: “Perspectival Structure” and Semantics of Diathetic Alternation
   2. Scope of Negation. Western vs. Russian views. Our working hypotheses
   3. The Referential Status of the NP
   4. Unification of Subject and Object Genitive of Negation? Western vs. Russian views
4. The significance of Gen Neg for Integrating Lexical and Compositional Semantics
5. Plan of Work
   1. Groundwork and general
   2. Plans for the period of the project
6. Results from prior NSF support and relation to proposed project
   1. Specific Results
   2. Products and Activities

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