1.LEXICAL DATABASE OF THE

ABSTRACT.One of the essential aspects is described of an expert system (called LEXICOGRAPItER), designed to supply the user with diverse brformation about Russian words, h~cluding bibliographic hi forma-tion concemhrg hrdividual lexical entries. Tire lexical database of tire system contahrs semantic btfonnation that catmot be elicited from the existhrg dictionaries. Tire priority is given to semantic features influenchtg lexical or grammatical co-occurrence restrictions. Pos-sibilities are discussed of predicting selectional restric-tions on the basis of semantic features of a word bz the lexicon

The role of verb semantics in genitive alternations: genitive of negation and genitive of intensionality

Our goal is to capture what the different instances of Gen/Nom and Gen/Acc have in common semantically while still respecting the multiplicity of factors involved and not predicting more uniformity than is actually found. Our main idea is to treat Gen Neg and Gen Int as a “diathesis shift”, a “demotion” into a noncanonical subject or object position, semantically of type (e,t), thereby accounting for “decreased individuation/ referentiality”