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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Dear Matthew,<div><br></div><div>Thanks!<br><br></div><div>Sure, I also consider that the reason for English is the presence of the auxiliary. </div><div>However, what I want is to try to think of it a bit broader: is it true that an English-like situation is never observed in languages without an auxiliary? If yes, what does it tell us of the negation syntax? If no, what is the difference between Russian and some other languages where negation can be expressed once?</div><div><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: m.baerman@surrey.ac.uk<br>To: alexander_letuchiy@hotmail.com<br>Subject: FW: [Lingtyp] coordination and predicate negation<br>Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 13:18:07 +0000<br><br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Hi Sasha</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I’m no syntactician, so forgive me for stating the obvious, but I would imagine that the explanation for the English state of affairs is the auxiliary, which
hosts the negation. Since auxiliaries in English can have multiple complements, you can get away with one auxiliary, hence one negation.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">best</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Matthew</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alexander Letuchiy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 June 2015 14:47<br>
<b>To:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] coordination and predicate negation</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
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Are you aware of any linguistic work on coordination in constructions with predicate negation?</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";">One of the questions which I am interested in is why in some languages (English) the negation can be expressed once (1), while in others (Russian) it must be expressed twice (3), while (2)
is ungrammatical:</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";">English:</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";">(1) He does not read books or watch TV.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";">Russian:</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";">(2) *On ne chitaet knigi i / ili smotrit televizor</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";"> he NEG reads books and / or watches TV</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";"> Intended: 'He does not read books and / or watch TV'.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";">(3) On ne chitaet knigi i ne smotrit televizor</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";"> he NEG reads books and NEG watches TV</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";"> 'He does not read books and does not watch TV'.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";">Thanks a lot in advance,</span></p>
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Sasha Letuchiy, Moscow</span></p>
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