31.2003, Books: The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers: De Clercq

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:29:15
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers: De Clercq

 


Title: The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers 
Subtitle: A Nanosyntactic Account 
Series Title: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/37ulrSp 


Author: Karen De Clercq

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501520068 Pages: 252 Price: U.S. $ 137.99


Abstract:

This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon
of negation. Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence
negation, while low scope negation or constituent negation is hardly ever
systematically discussed in the literature. The present book aims to fill that
gap, by investigating scopally different negative markers in a sample of 23
typologically diverse languages. A four-way classification of negative markers
is argued for and it is shown how meaningful syncretism patterns arise across
those four groups of negative markers in the language sample investigated. The
syncretisms are meaningful in that they track the natural semantic scope of
negation, and provide support to the idea that morphology is not arbitrary,
but points to submorphemic structure. Consequently, this study leads to a
decomposition of the negative morpheme into five privative features: Tense,
Focus, Classification, Quantity and Negation proper. Finally, the book argues
that sentence, constituent and lexical negation can all be treated in the same
module of the grammar, i.e. syntax.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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