Sentential Negation in French
1st Edition
Published on 24. September 1998
252 pages
978-0-19-534424-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and personne. His conclusions have far-reaching implications, leading to the controversial hypothesis that, despite widespread belief, French is not a negative concord language.
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Sentential Negation in French
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- 1 Foundations
- 1.1 Verbal inflection and Verb Movement
- 1.2 The syntax of sentential negation
- 1.3 The AFFECT criterion
- 1.4 Summary
- 2 The Negative Marker
- 2.1 Configuration 1: pas as an adverb
- 2.2 Configuration 2: pas and indefinite direct objects
- 2.3 Summary
- 3 Jespersen's Generalization
- 3.1 The Negative Cycle
- 3.2 NC and Jespersen's Generalization
- 3.3 The Neg Criterion revisited
- 3.4 Jespersen's Generalization: analysis
- 3.5 Counterexamples to Jespersen's Generalization?
- 3.6 Discussion and summary
- 4 Other Negative Adverbs
- 4.1 Inventory: negative adverbs and arguments
- 4.2 Distribution of negative adverbs
- 4.3 The syntactic status of jamais, plus, guère
- 4.4 Explanatory power
- 4.5 Summary
- 5 Negative Arguments
- 5.1 Early generative approaches to the syntax of personne and rien
- 5.2 The syntax of personne
- 5.3 The distribution of rien
- 5.4 The formal differences between personne and rien
- 5.5 Residual issues
- 5.6 Summary
- References
- Index
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