Restrictor restrictions: What kind of restrictors do negative floating quantifiers in Russian require?

Anastasiia Voznesenskaia
Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract. This paper deals with negative floating quantifiers in Russian from the perspective of what can be a restrictor of those quantifiers in such constructions. Constructions with nikto ‘nobody’, ni odin ‘not one’ and nikakoj ‘no’ are analyzed. Data is provided for split constructions with negative quantifiers in subject, direct object and dative argument positions. Restrictors undergoing movement are examined. The constructions under study are divided into three groups with respect to the properties examined.

Keywords: quantifier float, split scrambling, Russian

For citation: Voznesenskaia A. Restrictor restrictions: What kind of restrictors do negative floating quantifiers in Russian require? Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2019. Vol. 2, iss. 2. Pp. 27–53.