Lexical and Syntactic Coordination in Counter-Optative Infi nitive Clauses
The possibility of establishing lexical and syntactic coordination between the semantics of the verbal lexeme or its environment and the general meaning of the syntactic construction is considered as a condition for using this lexeme in an infi nitive clause with the meaning of undesirability (Ne khod’it’ by vam tuda… “You should not go there”). There are two types of such coordination: direct predicate semantic agreement (the semantics of the verb directly corresponds to one of the particular meanings of the construction: Ne oshibit’sya by tol’ko… “[It would be great] just not to make a mistake”) and indirect semantic agreement in a number of varieties: predicate-binding (Ne okazat’sya by v durakax “[It would be great] not to be fooled”), predicate-actant (Ne polyubit’ by kozla “[It would be great] not to fall in love with a goat”), predicate-sirconstant (Ne radovat’sya by nam ran’she vremeni “We should not rejoice ahead of time”) and mediated by the context (cf. the fi rst example). The lexical and semantic groups of verbs that function most regularly in such clauses are determined.