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Date: 15-Jun-2010
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Negative Indefinites in Afrikaans: Huddlestone
 

	
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Title: Negative Indefinites in Afrikaans 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Kate Huddlestone

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930331 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This dissertation is concerned with the syntactic and semantic status of
negative indefinites in Afrikaans. The problem posed by negative
indefinites is that their interpretation appears to differ across double
negation (DN) and negative concord (NC) languages. With respect to negative
indefinites, Afrikaans
displays features that distinguish it from both typical NC and typical DN
languages. Contrary to most NC languages, and similarly to DN languages,
standard Afrikaans does not allow negative indefinites to co-occur with a NC
interpretation. If multiple negative indefinites do co-occur, the utterance is
given a DN interpretation in standard Afrikaans. However, in colloquial
Afrikaans multiple negative indefinites can co-occur with a NC interpretation.

It is this potential ambiguity between NC and DN interpretations of multiple
negative indefinite combinations on the one hand, and the variation in the
expression of multiple indefinites in the scope of negation on the other hand,
that forms the central focus of the dissertation. The analysis of negative
indefinites in Afrikaans proposed in this dissertation is formulated in the
framework of bidirectional Optimality Theory (OT) and is based on both
theoretical observations and empirical data. This dissertation is of
interest to researchers working on negation in general and to those
interested in Afrikaans, and negation in Afrikaans. 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Structure

Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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