Negation And Clausal Structure

Author : Raffaella Zanuttini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195359787

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Negation and Clausal Structure by Raffaella Zanuttini Pdf

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.

Author : Ur Shlonsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 9780195108668

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Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic by Ur Shlonsky Pdf

Looking at the grammars of Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic, Shlonsky examines clausal architecture and verb movement and the role of agreement in natural language, using Chomsky's Government and Binding approach.

Author : Raffaella Zanuttini,Héctor Campos,Elena Herburger,Paul H. Portner
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1589013050

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Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics by Raffaella Zanuttini,Héctor Campos,Elena Herburger,Paul H. Portner Pdf

Presenting cutting-edge research in syntax and semantics, this important volume furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics and represents a significant addition to present scholarship in the field. Leading scholars present crosslinguistic studies dealing with clausal architecture, negation, and tense and aspect, and the issue of whether a statistical model can by itself capture the richness of human linguistic abilities. Taken together, these contributions elegantly show how theoretical tools can propel our understanding of language beyond pretheoretical descriptions, especially when combined with the insight and skills of linguists who can analyze difficult and complex data. Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics covers a range of topics currently at the center of lively debate in the linguistic literature, such as the structure of the left periphery of the clause, the proper treatment of negative polarity items, and the role of statistical learning in building a model of linguistic competence. The ten original contributions offer an excellent balance of novel empirical description and theoretical analysis, applied to a wide range of languages, including Dutch, German, Irish English, Italian, Malagasy, Malay, and a number of medieval Romance languages. Scholars and students of semantics, syntax, and linguistic theory will find it to be a valuable resource for ongoing scholarship and advanced study.

Author : V. Dayal,Anoop Mahajan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781402027192

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Clause Structure in South Asian Languages by V. Dayal,Anoop Mahajan Pdf

The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of various syntactic phenomena in South Asian languages. Clause Structure in South Asian Languages: provides a comprehensive overview and covers major aspects of clause structure in a variety of South Asian languages; provides detailed analyses of several aspects of phrase structure of many prominent South Asian languages; gives theoretically up-to-date treatment of several important issues in South Asian syntax and semantics; contains papers by some of the most prominent linguists working on South Asian languages.

Author : Hŭi-don An
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : English language
ISBN : WISC:89034949768

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Light Verbs, VP-movement, Negation and Clausal Architecture in Korean and English by Hŭi-don An Pdf

Author : Matti Miestamo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197631

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Standard Negation by Matti Miestamo Pdf

This book is the first cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on an extensive and systematic language sample. Methodological issues, especially sampling, are discussed at length. Standard negation – the basic structural means languages have for negating declarative verbal main clauses – is typologized from a new perspective, paying attention to structural differences between affirmatives and negatives. In symmetric negation affirmative and negative structures show no differences except for the presence of the negative marker(s), whereas in asymmetric negation there are further structural differences, i.e. asymmetries. A distinction is made between constructional and paradigmatic asymmetry; in the former the addition of the negative marker(s) is accompanied by further structural differences in comparison to the corresponding affirmative, and in the latter the correspondences between the members of (verbal etc.) paradigms used in affirmatives and negatives are not one-to-one. Cross-cutting the constructional-paradigmatic distinction, asymmetric negation can be further divided into subtypes according to the nature of the asymmetry. Standard negation structures found in the 297 sample languages are exemplified and discussed in detail. The frequencies of the different types and some typological correlations are also examined. Functional motivations are proposed for the structural types – symmetric negatives are language-internally analogous to the linguistic structure of the affirmative and asymmetric negatives are language-externally analogous to different asymmetries between affirmation and negation on the functional level. Relevant diachronic issues are also discussed. The book is of interest to language typologists, descriptive linguists and to all linguists interested in negation.

Author : Agnes Jäger,Gisella Ferraresi,Helmut Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198813545

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Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German by Agnes Jäger,Gisella Ferraresi,Helmut Weiss Pdf

This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into multiple central aspects of clause structure and word order, including verb placement, adverbial connectives, pronominal syntax, and information-structural factors.

Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1985-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521276594

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Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure by Timothy Shopen Pdf

The three volumes of Language Typology and Syntactic Description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense, aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.

Author : Danielle Forget,Paul Hirschbühler,France Martineau,María Luisa Rivero
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275899

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Negation and Polarity by Danielle Forget,Paul Hirschbühler,France Martineau,María Luisa Rivero Pdf

In the last decade, there has been a revival of interest regarding negation and polarity, with much cross-fertilization between semantic and syntactic approaches. The papers in the present volume address key issues regarding the syntax and semantics of negation and polarity, including both synchronic and diachronic perpectives. Central to the discussions are the distribution of negative markers and the structure of the clause, negative concord phenomena, licensing of polarity items, similarities between Neg-movement and wh-movement. The papers, by main contributors to the field, reflect different theoretical frameworks, including Principles and Parameters and Minimalist approaches, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Formal Semantics, or approaches interested in pragmatics. The volume is of interest to syntacticians, semanticians, historical linguists, typologists, and philosophers.

Author : Harold Torrence
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255815

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The Clause Structure of Wolof by Harold Torrence Pdf

This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the morpho?syntax of wh?questions, successive cyclicity, subject marking, relative clauses, topic/focus articulation, and complementizer agreement. Novel data from Wolof is used to evaluate and extend theoretical proposals concerning the structure of the Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Tense Phrase (TP). It is argued that Wolof provides evidence for the promotion analysis of relative clauses, an exploded CP and TP, and for analyses that treat relative clauses as composed of a determiner with a CP complement. It is further argued that Wolof has a set of silent wh?expressions and these are compared to superficially similar constructions in colloquial German, Bavarian, Dutch, and Norwegian. The book also presents a comparison of complementizer agreement across a number of related and unrelated languages. Data from Indo?European (Germanic varieties, French, Irish), Niger?Congo (Atlantic, Bantu, Gur), and Semitic (Arabic) languages put the Wolof phenomena in a larger typological context by showing the range of variation in complementizer agreement systems."

Author : Felicia Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402043086

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Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture by Felicia Lee Pdf

San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement. This work proposes a VP-remnant raising account for these phenomena, motivated by Kayne’s (1992) antisymmetry program. The book also examines the consequences of phrasal remnant movement for negation constructions, and the interpretation of tense, aspect, and mood.

Author : Dagmar Haumann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027233691

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Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English by Dagmar Haumann Pdf

This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the hypothesis that the licensing of adverbs within and across the three layers of the clause is contingent on specifier-head agreement and that variation in the linear order of adverbs and other elements of the clause follows from the interplay of a small number of factors. The central claims made are: functional projections hosting adverbs are not confined to the inflectional and complementizer layer of the clause, but also play a central role in the shaping of the lexical layer; postverbal adverbs are realized within a semantically empty verbal projection and licensed under specifier head agreement by proxy; and adverbs that occur within the complementizer layer of the clause do so by either move or merge.

Author : Rajesh Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135504755

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The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi by Rajesh Kumar Pdf

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.

Author : Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198759522

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The Development of Latin Clause Structure by Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert Pdf

This book examines Latin word order, and in particular the relative ordering of i) lexical verbs and direct objects (OV vs VO) and ii) auxiliaries and non-finite verbs (VAux vs AuxV). In Latin these elements can freely be ordered with respect to each other, whereas the present-day Romance languages only allow for the head-initial orders VO and AuxV. Lieven Danckaert offers a detailed, corpus-based description of these two word order alternations, focusing on their diachronic development in the period from c. 200 BC until 600 AD. The corpus data reveal that some received wisdom needs to be reconsidered: there is in fact no evidence for any major increase in productivity of the order VO during the eight centuries under investigation, and the order AuxV only becomes more frequent in clauses with a modal verb and an infinitive, not in clauses with a BE-auxiliary and a past participle. The book also explores a more fundamental question about Latin syntax, namely whether or not the language is configurational, in the sense that a phrase structure grammar (with 'higher-order constituents' such as verb phrases) is needed to describe and analyse Latin word order patterns. Four pieces of evidence are presented that suggest that Latin is indeed a fully configurational language, despite its high degree of word order flexibility. Specifically, it is shown that there is ample evidence for the existence of a verb phrase constituent. The book thus contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the status of configurationality as a language universal.

Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521464925

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The Syntax of Negation by Liliane Haegeman Pdf

Demonstrates sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework, showing parallelism between negative and interrogative sentences.