Case and agreement with genitive of quantification in Russian

FDSL 5 audience for helpful comments, and Lydia Grebenyova and Arthur Stepanov for help with the data. The paper examines only GQ in Russian. GQ in other Slavic languages does not work in exactly the same way as in Russian. In fact, there are several rather interesting differences among Slavic languages regarding case and agreement in GQ constructions. The reader is referred to Boskovi (2003b) for relevant discussion of Serbo-Croatian (SC) 1 Case and Agreement with Genitive of Quantification in Russian eljko Boskovi University of Connecticut The paper examines one of the thorniest issues of Russian morphosyntax, namely case and agreement with genitive of quantification (GQ). GQ is the term used to refer to the genitive case higher numerals in Russian assign to the noun that follows it in structural case contexts, GQ assignment being blocked in inherent case contexts. Example (1) illustrates GQ. The example illustrates another interesting property of Russian GQ NPs: when they function as subjects, they only optionally agree with the verb.

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