On the Syntax of Negation
by
Itziar Laka
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
ISBN-10
081531728X
ISBN-13
9780815317289
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 1994
Print length
186 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Product Classification:
Grammar, syntax & morphology
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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 oper
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
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