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The Accusative Case as a Marker of Certainty of an Object with a Transitive Verb with Negation (Using Examples of Kinship Terms)

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This article considers the problem of choosing the genitive or accusative case of an object with a transitive verb under negation in the diachronic aspect from the 18th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The purpose of the study is to determine in which period and to what extent the choice of the case was influenced by the object’s certainty factor. The material is the examples from the main body of the National Corpus of Russian language with the presumptive object, that is, the names of relatives in the female line.

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Notes

  1. In the generation register according to the communicative grammar of G.A. Zolotova.

  2. e-mail: ruscorpora.ru

  3. Since the 1750s, the main corpus does not give earlier examples with the names of relatives.

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Fesenko, V.P. The Accusative Case as a Marker of Certainty of an Object with a Transitive Verb with Negation (Using Examples of Kinship Terms). Autom. Doc. Math. Linguist. 53, 189–202 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105519040034

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