Semantics in Syntax: Linear Ordering of Genitive Adnominal Dependents Cosubordinated to a Noun in Russian

The paper proposes formal rules for linear ordering of adnominal genitive dependents cosubordinated to the same noun in Russian. In a standard case, the cosubordinated NGEN-is are mutually positioned as a function of the surface-syntactic relation that dominates each NGEN-i (there are six such surface-syntactic relations). But fairly often the positioning of an NGEN-i is determined by its meaning; thus, if in an N→NGEN-i construction an NGEN expresses the type of N’s referent, this NGEN precedes all the other NGEN-is. The ordering of cosubordinated genitives (which is mostly syntactic) is compared with the ordering of cosubordinated adjectives, whose position is determined by a hierarchy of their semantic classes (i.e., semantically).

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adnominal genitive, dependencies, genitive, Meaning-Text theory, noun phrase, Russian, syntax, word order

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02.09.2019

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02.09.2019

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GOST	Iordanskaja L., Mel’čuk I. Semantics in Syntax: Linear Ordering of Genitive Adnominal Dependents Cosubordinated to a Noun in Russian // Voprosy Jazykoznanija – 2019. – Issue 4 C. 33-46 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/vopjaz/s0373658x0005705-4-1-en (circulation date: 26.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0005705-4
MLA	Iordanskaja, Lidija N, Mel’čuk, Igor A "Semantics in Syntax: Linear Ordering of Genitive Adnominal Dependents Cosubordinated to a Noun in Russian." Voprosy Jazykoznanija 4 (2019):33-46. DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0005705-4
APA	Iordanskaja L., Mel’čuk I. (2019). Semantics in Syntax: Linear Ordering of Genitive Adnominal Dependents Cosubordinated to a Noun in Russian. Voprosy Jazykoznanija (4), pp.33-46 DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0005705-4

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