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The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers - A Nanosyntactic Account (Hardcover)
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The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers - A Nanosyntactic Account (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
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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 that gap, by investigating scopally
different negative markers in a sample of 23 typologically diverse
languages. A four-way classification of negative markers is argued
for and it is shown how meaningful syncretism patterns arise across
those four groups of negative markers in the language sample
investigated. The syncretisms are meaningful in that they track the
natural semantic scope of negation, and provide support to the idea
that morphology is not arbitrary, but points to submorphemic
structure. Consequently, this study leads to a decomposition of the
negative morpheme into five privative features: Tense, Focus,
Classification, Quantity and Negation proper. Finally, the book
argues that sentence, constituent and lexical negation can all be
treated in the same module of the grammar, i.e. syntax.
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