12.1713, Qs: Ellipsis/VSO Lang, Negation/Contemporary French

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Subject: 12.1713, Qs: Ellipsis/VSO Lang, Negation/Contemporary French

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Date:  Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:18:21 +0100
From:  "Nasu, Norio" <nnasu at essex.ac.uk>
Subject:  VP-ellipsis in VSO languages

2)
Date:  Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:43:34 +0200
From:  "Bruno Estigarribia Fioravanti" <brunilda at free.fr>
Subject:  Negation in Contemporary French

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Date:  Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:18:21 +0100
From:  "Nasu, Norio" <nnasu at essex.ac.uk>
Subject:  VP-ellipsis in VSO languages

Dear linguists,

English has sentences where VP is omitted:
(1) John bought a car, but Bill didn't.
(2) I don't know if John can solve the problem, but I'm sure he'll try to.

I would like to know whether VP-ellipsis exists in VSO languages.  Also, I
would be grateful if anyone could tell me about articles/books on
VP-ellipsis in those languages.

Please reply to nnasu at essex.ac.uk

Thanks in advance.

Norio


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Date:  Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:43:34 +0200
From:  "Bruno Estigarribia Fioravanti" <brunilda at free.fr>
Subject:  Negation in Contemporary French



    Hello everyone,

            I'm currently writing a brief account of negation in
contemporary French and I'm having trouble finding articles and/or books
that aren't dated or that provide some original enlightenment. My claim
would be, basically, that we need to abandon the idea of "ne" dropping
to explain the different surface forms of negation. Instead, one could
contend, for instance, that the basic negation is a simple, postponed
one, and that one has to account for the appearance of "ne", not for its
"deletion".
    It may lead nowhere, but perhaps it's an idea worth examining.
    I'll summarize. Thanks to everyone.

Bruno Estigarribia Fioravanti
Universite Paris V-Rene Descartes-Sorbonne
Departement de Linguistique generale et appliquee
brunilda at online.fr


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