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Making sense of variable number agreement in Russian

Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 2025. No. 1. P. 62–77.
Ivlieva N., Podobryaev A.

In this paper, we focus on Russian quantified noun phrases that are known to be able to trigger plural verbal agreement or no agreement at all. Descriptively, we offer a novel generalization: when such phrases trigger plural verbal agreement, they cannot be interpreted in the immediate scope of negation. We show that this generalization falls out if these plural-agreeing phrases are treated in semantics as individual-denoting choice-functional indefinites and not as generalized quantifiers. Theoretically, we speculate that interpretable number features are in principle incompatible with generalized quantifier denotations.

Research target: Philology and Linguistics
Language: English
DOI
Keywords: formal semanticssemantics of numbersemantic agreement
Publication based on the results of:
Crossmodular interaction in the grammatical theory: modeling grammatical features based on the data of the languages of Russia (2024)
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