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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Voprosy Jazykoznanija</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Voprosy Jazykoznanija</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вопросы языкознания</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0373-658X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-5243</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">682122</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/0373-658X.2025.1.62-77</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Making sense of variable number agreement in Russian</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>К осмыслению вариативного числового согласования в русском языке</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Ivlieva</surname><given-names>Natalia V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Ивлиева</surname><given-names>Наталья Викторовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>nivlieva@hse.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Podobryaev</surname><given-names>Alexander V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Подобряев</surname><given-names>Александр Владимирович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>apodobryaev@hse.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">HSE University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-01-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>01</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>62</fpage><lpage>77</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-06-03"><day>03</day><month>06</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/0373-658X/article/view/682122">https://journals.eco-vector.com/0373-658X/article/view/682122</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In this paper, we focus on Russian quantified noun phrases that are known to be able to trigger plural verbal agreement or no agreement at all. Descriptively, we offer a novel generalization: when such phrases trigger plural verbal agreement, they cannot be interpreted in the immediate scope of negation. We show that this generalization falls out if these plural-agreeing phrases are treated in semantics as individual-denoting choice-functional indefinites and not as generalized quantifiers. Theoretically, we speculate that interpretable number features are in principle incompatible with generalized quantifier denotations.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В фокусе статьи русские количественные именные группы, которые, как известно, могут вызывать предикативное согласование по множественному числу или не вызывать согласования вовсе. С описательной стороны мы предлагаем следующее обобщение: когда такие группы вызывают согласование по множественному числу, они не могут быть проинтерпретированы в непосредственной сфере действия отрицания. Мы показываем, что это обобщение получает объяснение, если принять, что согласующиеся по множественному числу группы имеют индивидные денотаты, полученные с помощью функций выбора. Их денотатами не могут быть обобщенные кванторы. C теоретической стороны мы предлагаем считать, что интерпретируемые признаки числа принципиально несовместимы с кванторными денотатами.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>agreement</kwd><kwd>negation</kwd><kwd>number</kwd><kwd>quantitative constructions</kwd><kwd>reference</kwd><kwd>Russian</kwd><kwd>syntax</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>количественные конструкции</kwd><kwd>отрицание</kwd><kwd>референция</kwd><kwd>русский язык</kwd><kwd>синтаксис</kwd><kwd>согласование</kwd><kwd>число</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Barkova 2023 — Barkova L. Non-isomorphic wide scope of quantified numerals in Russian: Experimental investigation. 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