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The Syntax of Negation (Hardcover, New)
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The Syntax of Negation (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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In this book Liliane Haegeman presents an account of sentential
negation within a Government and Binding framework. Building on the
work of Klima and Lasnik, Haegeman demonstrates the parallelism
between negative sentences and interrogative sentences, and gives a
unified analysis in terms of a well-formedness condition on
syntactic representations: the AFFECT criterion, instantiated as
the WH-criterion in interrogative sentences and as the
NEG-criterion in negative sentences. It is shown that in the same
way that in many languages the WH-criterion gives rise to
WH-movement, the NEG-criterion may also give rise to NEG-movement.
This is particularly clear in the Germanic languages. In the
analysis of sentential negation in Romance languages the author
makes extensive use of the notion of representational chain,
showing that in these languages too the NEG-criterion applies at
the level of S-structure. In addition to providing a syntactic
analysis of sentential negation the book also raises a number of
theoretical issues such as that of the distinction between
A-positions and A'-positions and the level of application of
well-formedness conditions. This book will be of interest to all
those working on theoretical syntax, particularly of the Germanic
and Romance languages.
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