Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance LanguagesOxford University Press, 4 set 1997 - 336 pagine 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. |
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Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages Raffaella Zanuttini Anteprima limitata - 1997 |
Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages Raffaella Zanuttini Visualizzazione estratti - 1997 |
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2nd pl 2nd sg adjoin agreement clitics anymore argued auxiliary Basso Polesano Benincà c-command Cairese Cairo Montenotte Cinque co-occur complement clitics contexts dialects discussed exhibit finite verb French Friulian functional projection gerund Gianni illocutionary force imperative clauses infinitival form infinitival verbs interrogative subject clitic Kayne l'ha left-adjoined lower adverbs main verb mica Milanese minga mood MoodP morpheme morphological negate a clause negate a proposition negate the clause negative constituent negative element negative imperative NegP non-interrogative non-presuppositional Occitan occur overt Paduan past participle Pavese pi nen Piedmontese Poletto post-verbal negative marker pre-verbal negative marker precede presence presuppositional negative marker pronominal clitics proposal Rivero Romance languages s.cl s.cl'has neg second person singular sempre sentential negation specifier structural position structurally higher subject clitics subjunctive suppletive imperative syntactic syntax thematic vowel true and suppletive true imperative forms true imperative verb ungrammaticality Valdotain verb movement verbal form vocalic clitics word order yes/no questions Zanuttini
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