Leonard H Babby

Biographic Data

ID742800
NAMELeonard H Babby
GIVEN NAMESLeonard H
FAMILY NAMEBabby
SIGNATUREBABBY L H
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS42
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX4

  • A New Argument for the Lexical Underspecification of Causers

    James Lavine, James E Lavine et al.ARTICLELinguistic Inquiry2019References: 33

    This article shows how a systematic impersonalization alternation in Russian provides additional evidence for underspecification in argument structure. In the case of a large class of lexically causative verbs, the causer is realized either as a volitional Agent in the nominative case or as an oblique-marked, nonvolitional causer, depending on how the event is construed. A causative theory of accusative is advanced, according to which the mere pr…

  • The Syntax of Adverbial Participles in Russian Revisited

    Leonard H Babby, Leonard Babby et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1998Cited by: 8

    We were motivated to return to the morphosyntax of adverbial participles in Russian at this time for two reasons. First, new Russian data have come to light whose diagnostic potential was not recognized in earlier work (see section 4.2). Second, Williams' 1994 theory of theta roles, predication, and binding enables us to propose an analysis of the syntax of adverbial participles that is truly minimal since it makes it possible to replace empirica…

  • The Role of Case in Russian Syntax

    Open AccessLeonard H BabbyREVIEWLanguage1989Cited by: 1

    Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1983

  • Case, prequantifiers, and discontinuous agreement in Russian

    Open AccessLeonard H BabbyARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…1987Cited by: 15References: 5

  • Noun phrase internal case agreement in Russian

    Open AccessLeonard H BabbyARTICLERussian Linguistics1985

  • Existential Sentences and Negation in Russian

    James Gallant, Leonard H BabbyARTICLELanguage1982

  • Agreement in Contemporary Standard Russian

    Leonard H Babby, Dina B CrockettARTICLELanguage1978

  • Tipologija passivnyx konstrukcij

    Leonard H Babby, A A XolodovicARTICLELanguage1976

  • Impersonal Verbs and Their Lexical Specification

    Leonard H BabbyARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1975Cited by: 1

    These so-called impersonal verbs share a number of syntactic and semantic properties. In this paper we will concentrate on the following interesting fact about these verbs (which to the best of my knowledge has been not previously noticed): IMPERSONAL VERBS IN RUSSIAN DO NOT FORM ACTIVE PARTICIPLES OR GERUNDS. Thus the paradigm of an impersonal verb like tosnit' does not include forms like *tonjalfiij, *tognivgij, *toinja, or *togniv. The discuss…

  • A transformational analysis of transitive -SJA verbs in Russian

    Open AccessLeonard H BabbyARTICLELingua1975Cited by: 7References: 8

  • The Syntax of Voice in Russian

    Leonard H Babby, Richard D BrechtARTICLELanguage1975Cited by: 4

    It is argued here that the syntactic relations between active, passive, and ‘middle’ sentences in Russian cannot be stated in their most general form as long as the grammar of Russian contains a Passive transformation. We propose a theory that defines Voice as the relationship between a verb's subcategorization feature and the surface form of the sentence in which it occurs. This relationship may be optionally expressed by a Voice morpheme on the…

  • The Deep Structure of Adjectives and Participles in Russian

    Leonard H BabbyARTICLELanguage1973Cited by: 6

    An analysis of the deep structure and transformations involved in the syntactic derivation of long and short forms of adjectives and participles in Russian serves here as the basis for a discussion of the notion ‘parts of speech’ in a transformational grammar. It is suggested that a grammar must distinguish between deep-structure parts of speech (introduced by the base rules) and surface-structure or derived parts of speech, i.e. deep-structure c…

  • Slovosochetanie v sovremennom russkom iazyke

    Leonard H Babby, N N Prokopovich et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1969