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.
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