The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers : : A Nanosyntactic Account / / Karen De Clercq.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ,
144 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 252 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Part I: Aims and background
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical background: Nanosyntax
- Part II: The internal structure of negative markers
- 3. Classification of negative markers
- 4. The crosslinguistic morphosyntax of negative markers
- 5. The internal syntax of a negative marker
- Part III: Negative markers and their clausal syntax in English and French
- 6. The external syntax of negative markers in English
- 7. Diachronic change in French
- Part IV: Remaining issues
- 8. Other syntactic perspectives on negation
- 9. Semantics
- 10. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index