The Syntax Of Negation
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The Syntax Of Negation
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Author : Liliane Haegeman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-03-30
The Syntax Of Negation written by Liliane Haegeman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Demonstrates sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework, showing parallelism between negative and interrogative sentences.
Negation And Licensing Of Negative Polarity Items In Hindi Syntax
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Author : Rajesh Kumar
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006
Negation And Licensing Of Negative Polarity Items In Hindi Syntax written by Rajesh Kumar and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Foreign Language Study categories.
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Syntax Of Negation And The Licensing Of Negative Polarity Items In Hindi
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Author : Rajesh Kumar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15
The Syntax Of Negation And The Licensing Of Negative Polarity Items In Hindi written by Rajesh Kumar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This books studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. It outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within the structure. It is argued that sentential negative in Hindi negation marker heads its own maximal projection, NegP, which is immediately dominated by TP. In addition to locating the position of negation markers in the clause structure, it outlines the distribution of negative polarity items (NPIs) in Hindi and the structural constraints on their licensing by sentential negative. The book argues that an NPI in Hindi is licensed overtly in the course of derivation by a c-commanding negative marker. The bulk of the evidence presented in this book argues against previous theoretical accounts that claim that NPI licensing involves covert syntactic operations such as LF movement or reconstruction. With respect to the classification of NPIs , this book also shows the existence of two different types of NPIs in Hindi; namely, strong NPIs and weak NPIs. Strong NPIs require a clause mate c-commanding negative licensor, whereas weak NPIs are quantifiers and are similar to free choice 'any' in English that are interpreted as NPIs in the presence of a c-commanding negative licensor.
On The Syntax Of Negation
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Author : Itziar Laka
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-18
On The Syntax Of Negation written by Itziar Laka and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First Published in 1994. This is an investigation to explore certain syntactic phenomena induced by sentence negation in Basque and English. In this study of linguistics the author attempts to provide a unified account of them, based on a universal requirement on functional heads. The requirement called the Tense C-command Condition requires that all functional heads in the clause that are propositional operators should be c-commanded by the head Tense at S-structure
The Expression Of Negation
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Author : Laurence R. Horn
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-05-27
The Expression Of Negation written by Laurence R. Horn and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negation that makes us human, imbuing us with the capacity to deny, to contradict, to misrepresent, to lie, and to convey irony. The apparent simplicity of logical negation as a one-place operator that toggles truth and falsity belies the intricate complexity of the expression of negation in natural language. Not only do we find negative adverbs, verbs, copulas, quantifiers, and affixes, but the interaction of negation with other operators (including multiple iterations of negation itself) can be exceedingly complex to describe, extending (as first detailed by Otto Jespersen) to negative concord, negative incorporation, and the widespread occurrence of negative polarity items whose distribution is subject to principles of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters in this book survey the patterning of negative utterances in natural languages, spanning such foundational issues as how negative sentences are realized cross-linguistically and how that realization tends to change over time, how negation is acquired by children, how it is processed by adults, and how its expression changes over time. Specific chapters offer focused empirical studies of negative polarity, pleonastic negation, and negative/quantifier scope interaction, as well as detailed examinations of the form and function of sentential negation in modern Romance languages and Classical Japanese.
Negation And Clausal Structure
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Author : Raffaella Zanuttini
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-09-04
Negation And Clausal Structure written by Raffaella Zanuttini and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic competence provides a means to express sentential negation. This ability, however, may be expressed in different ways, as shown by the fact that individual languages employ different syntactic strategies for the expression of the same semantic function of negating a sentence. Zanuttini's goal here is to characterize the range of such variation by comparing the different syntactic means for expressing sentential negation exhibited by the members of one language family--the Romance languages--and by reducing the differences we witness to a constrained set of choices available to the particular grammars of these languages. This sort of analysis is a first step towards the ultimate goal of determining and understanding what limits there are on the syntactic options that universal grammar imposes on the expression of sentential negation.
Negative Indefinites
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Author : Doris Penka
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
Negative Indefinites written by Doris Penka and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation.In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express a single negation), split readings (in which negative and indefinite parts take scope independently of each other), and the limited distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian languages - Doris Penka considers data from a wide range of languages and reviews the mostrecent literature on the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites. Her book will interest all linguists working on negation in particular and the syntax-semantics interface more generally.
Negation And Polarity Experimental Perspectives
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Author : Pierre Larrivée
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-07-28
Negation And Polarity Experimental Perspectives written by Pierre Larrivée and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various experimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French, Catalan and Korean along with analyses using semantic and pragmatic methods, corpus linguistics, diachronic perspectives and longitudinal acquisitional studies as well as signed and gestural negation. Each contribution is situated with regards to major previous studies, thereby offering readers insights on the current state of the art in research on negation and negative polarity, highlighting how theory and data together contributes to the understanding of cognition and mind.
The Morphosyntax Of Negative Markers
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Author : Karen De Clercq
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-06-08
The Morphosyntax Of Negative Markers written by Karen De Clercq and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation. Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope negation or constituent negation is hardly ever systematically discussed in the literature. The present book aims to fill that gap, by investigating scopally different negative markers in a sample of 23 typologically diverse languages. A four-way classification of negative markers is argued for and it is shown how meaningful syncretism patterns arise across those four groups of negative markers in the language sample investigated. The syncretisms are meaningful in that they track the natural semantic scope of negation, and provide support to the idea that morphology is not arbitrary, but points to submorphemic structure. Consequently, this study leads to a decomposition of the negative morpheme into five privative features: Tense, Focus, Classification, Quantity and Negation proper. Finally, the book argues that sentence, constituent and lexical negation can all be treated in the same module of the grammar, i.e. syntax.
The Grammar Of Negation
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Author : Jong-Bok Kim
language : en
Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Release Date : 2000-01-01
The Grammar Of Negation written by Jong-Bok Kim and has been published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A nonderivational, lexicalist analysis within the constraint-based framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.