The role of Theme–Rheme structure reconsidered: The Russian genitive of negation in existential sentences

Borschev, Vladimir; Partee, Barbara H.

doi:10.1075/plcp.4.11bor

In:Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série
Edited by Eva Hajičová, Petr Sgall, Jirí Hana and Tomáš Hoskovec
[Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S. 4] 2002
► pp. 185–250

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The Russian genitive of negation in existential sentences

The role of Theme–Rheme structure reconsidered

Vladimir Borschev

Barbara H. Partee

Published online: 27 June 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/plcp.4.11bor

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