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Use of genitive in negation

I'm having a hard time understanding what exactly the rule is on the use of the genitive case after negation. One could say "читаю эту книгу", and the negative would be "не читаю эту ...
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Semantic relationship between "немец" and "немой"?

I believe I was taught (when I studied Russian decades ago) that немец is related to немой, and that the semantic connection is that if one were to speak to one of these German types, rather than ...
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В чём разница между согласованием и управлением в подчинительном виде словосочетаний русского языка?

Как достоверно отличить одно от другого?
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What is the geography of (now obsolete) usage of the word фамилия to mean 'wife'?

While Valentin Kiparsky claimed (in Omagiu lui Iordan) that this usage is a calque from Tatar and therefore found in the Russian varieties spoken in and near Kazan (the area of the Tatar-speaking ...
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