Negation and Clausal Structure
A Comparative Study of Romance Languages
1st Edition
Published on 4. September 1997
216 pages
978-0-19-535978-7 (ISBN)
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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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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Issues in the Syntax of Sentential Negation
- 1.1. Negative markers and clausal structure
- 1.2. The distribution of negative constituents
- 1.3. Jespersen' s cycle
- 2. Pre-verbal Negative Markers
- 2.1. The range of variation
- 2.2. Pre-verbal negative markers and complement clitics
- 2.3. Pre-verbal negative markers and subject clitics
- 2.3.1. Agreement clitics and vocalic clitics
- 2.3.2. Two structural positions for agreement clitics
- 2.4. Pre-verbal negative markers and verb movement
- 2.4.1. Negative markers in the absence of verb movement
- 2.4.2. Negative markers in the presence of verb movement
- 2.5. Summary and conclusion
- 3. Post-verbal Negative Markers
- 3.1. Issues to be addressed
- 3.2. The distribution of adverbs
- 3.3. Presuppositional versus non-presuppositional negative markers
- 3.3.1. Two structural positions for Piedmontese pa and nen
- 3.3.2. Two structural positions for Valdotain pa
- 3.4. Non-presuppositional negative markers
- 3.4.1. The structural position of Milanese no
- 3.4.2. A focus position for Pavese no
- 3.5. Summary and conclusion
- 4. Negative Imperatives
- 4.1. A puzzling asymmetry
- 4.2. Negative markers in imperative clauses
- 4.3. True imperatives
- 4.4. Suppletive imperatives
- 4.5. Pre-verbal negative markers and mood
- 4.6. A comparison of true and suppletive imperatives
- 4.7. Imperatives and adverbs
- 4.8. The syntax of imperatives
- 4.8.1. Positive imperatives
- 4.8.2. Negative imperatives
- 4.9. Residual empirical issues
- 4.10. Summary and conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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