On the Syntax of Negation

by Itziar Laka

Overview

First Published in 1994. This is an investigation to explore certain syntactic phenomena induced by sentence negation in Basque and English. In this study of linguistics the author attempts to provide a unified account of them, based on a universal requirement on functional heads. The requirement called the Tense C-command Condition requires that all functional heads in the clause that are propositional operators should be c-commanded by the head Tense at S-structure

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815317289
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/1994
Series:	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix CHAPTER 1 THE TENSE C-COMMAND CONDITION CHAPTER 2 THE E PROJECTION CHAPTER 3 NEGATIVE COMPLEMENTIZERS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

Editorial Reviews

The central concern of this work (Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, 1990) is the syntactic nature of negation, and its relation to other elements in the grammar. Itziar argues that negation is not an independent syntactic category, but one value of a more abstract category which includes other sentence operators, such as affirmation and emphasis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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