Dėl tiesioginio objekto raiškos neigiamuosiuose veiksmažodiniuose junginiuose
On Expression of the Direct Object in Negative Verb Phrases

Summary/Abstract: The determination of syntactic potency (valency) of words and the choice of word forms ina word phrase or a sentence cause a lot of troubles for language codification. The norms of theobject genitive and competing constructions are not always stable in contemporary usage. Thearticle analyses the peculiarities of expression of the direct object (genitive-accusative ratio) andthe general tendencies in the case of double government, i.e. when it is affected by the negativeverb and the infinitive of the positive transitive verb.The accumulated data of contemporary usage and their analysis make it clear that the genitivecase is firmly established in the actual usage; it is more commonly used than the accusative case(their quantitative usage ratio is 71% : 29%). Such a tendency of contemporary usage correspondsto the principles established in the works on standardization.The usage of the accusative case manifests itself when: a) the word used as an object of theinfinitive of a transitive verb is at a greater distance from negation; b) the infinitive of a transitiveverb and the case of a governed object or the case of a single object is not in its usual position(preposition in respect of the negative verb).The patterns of usage of the negative genitive and accusative and the variation of these casesin the so called intermediate position are determined by specific factors: a distance between thenegative verb and the object case, a position of the word used as an object, grammatical andsemantic relations between words, stylistic requirements.

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