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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/05/2013 15:43, Christopher T
Collins wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAAoBAF4-CR7OPd93YfQQ5wNFX0dDJYd1YC6dnbEvoe4kZ7BFJQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I do not think that there has been a serious
typological investigation of the issue,<br>
and the results would be really interesting.<br>
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Yes, I think there's no world-wide study, but Giuliano Bernini &
Paolo Ramat investigated negation raising in their 1996 book <a
href="http://books.google.de/books?id=n7ec2TKXlEAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false">Negative
sentences in the languages of Europe</a>, where they had
questionnaire data on negation structures in 45 representative
European languages. Due to the nature of the data, the results are
hardly conclusive, but they did not find any significant variation
among European languages.<br>
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But if there's no variation among European languages, one does not
feel compelled to look for variation elsewhere. But as David Gil's
observations show, there may be some variation after all.<br>
<br>
Martin<br>
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Martin Haspelmath (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:haspelmath@eva.mpg.de">haspelmath@eva.mpg.de</a>)
Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) +49-341-980 1616
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