Accusative/Genitive Under Negation in Russian: From Syntactic Marking to Semantics

Constructive Negation Under the Well-Founded Semantics

Constructive negation derives constraint answers for non-ground negative literals. Its incorporation into query evaluation under the well-founded semantics introduces two problems. One is the detection of repeated sub-goals and the elimination of redundant answers, which is required in order to guarantee termination. The other is the interaction between constraint answers of non-ground negative...

Negation from the perspective of neighborhood semantics

This paper explores many important properties of negations using the neighborhood semantics. We generalize the correspondence between the properties of negations and the conditions on the frames and also establish the duality between distributive lattices with negation and descriptive general negation-neighborhood frames.

The Semantics of Negation

This is a paper about truth, or perhaps closer to what Gupta and Belnap call T-predicates [RTT,p.50], although the characterization provided below includes more than they would probably continence. The reason for the title will become apparent as the paper progresses, but in short I am holding everything else fixed: the language, its syntactic resources, the truth predicate; something has to gi...

Russian Spirituality and the Theology of Negation

Predictability and syntactic production: Evidence from subject omission in Russian

The quantitative study of the role of communicative efficiency in language production and comprehension has gained increasing attention recently. However, in online production most investigation has focused on the phonetic/phonological level, leaving open the question of whether the communicative pressures involved extend to the syntactic level. I present a corpus study which investigates the o...