Alternation ‘Accusative-Genitive alternation’ (Uncoded)

The Genitive can be used instead of the Accusative for the object argument of some transitive verbs (usually with less individuated/specific objects). This alternation, being lexically restricted, should be distinguished from the use of genitive instead of the accusative under negation (cf. Negative Genitive/Accusative Alternation), as well as from the Accusative-Partitive alternations (narezal xleb/xleb-a [cut bread-ACC/bread-GEN~PART] ‘cut the bread/some of the bread’), which are fairly productive.

Verb Meaning Verb form Basic coding frame Derived coding frame Occurs Comment # Ex.