Author : Sue Brown
Release : 1999-03-28
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 685/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Syntax of Negation in Russian by : Sue Brown
Download or read book The Syntax of Negation in Russian written by Sue Brown. This book was released on 1999-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a Minimalist analysis of certain syntactic phenomena in Russian associated with negation. These phenomena include the distribution of morphologically negative words and the pattern of Negative Concord they exhibit (whereby multiple occurrences of negative words are interpreted as only one instance of negation); the Genitive of Negation (the case marking on the internal argument of negated verbs); expletive negation (formal negation without negative content), and negated Yes/No questions (including a previously undiscussed pattern of expletive negation effects observed in certain types of Yes/No questions). The end result is a formalization of the status of negation within the phrase structure of Russian that not only contributes relevant Slavic data to the pool of negation data, but also sheds new light on the syntactic expression of negation universally.
