%0 Journal Article
%T <i>§¬§ß§Ú§Ô §á§ñ§ä§î</i> vs <i>§¬§ß§Ú§Ô ¨C §á§ñ§ä§î</i>: §Ó§Ñ§Ý§Ö§ß§ä§ß§à§ã§ä§ß§í§Ú  §Ñ§ß§Ñ§Ý§Ú§Ù<br>(<i>Knig pjat'</i> vs <i>Knig ¨C pjat'</i>: A Valency Analysis)
%A Lennart L£¿nngren
%J Poljarnyj Vestnik
%D 2005
%I University of Troms?
%X This study is an attempt to perform a valency analysis of two Russian constructions which differ only on the suprasegmental level: the noun phrase knig pjat' (¡®approximately five books') and the sentence Knig - pjat' (¡®As to books, there are five of them'). In the semantic representation of the NP the additional meaning indicated in the translation is accounted for by the introduction of a suprasegmental one-place predicate <INV> (inversion), taking the numeral as its argument. In the sentence, the pause signals a contrastive meaning (¡®books, as opposed to, for instance, jour- nals'). Of more interest and importance, however, is the enigmatic use of genitive plural also in combinations with the numerals 2-4, which other- wise take the genitive singular. It is suggested that numerals take two ar- guments, one naming the actual set of, for instance, five books, the other naming the set of all possible books. As a rule, the bigger set is expressed by means of a preposition phrase, but in this particular construction it is expressed by the initial genitive plural form.
%K Russian
%K language
%K numerals
%K valency
%U http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/septentrio/index.php/vestnik/article/view/1327