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The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach

The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach

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Series: Stanford Monographs in Linguistics

RussianLinguistics

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ISBN10: 1575861690
ISBN13: 9781575861692
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Published: Mar 28 1999
Pages: 166
Language: English
This book offers a Minimalist analysis of certain syntactic phenomena in Russian associated with negation. These phenomena include the distribution of morphologically negative words and the pattern of Negative Concord they exhibit (whereby multiple occurrences of negative words are interpreted as only one instance of negation); the Genitive of Negation (the case marking on the internal argument of negated verbs); expletive negation (formal negation without negative content), and negated Yes/No questions (including a previously undiscussed pattern of expletive negation effects observed in certain types of Yes/No questions). The end result is a formalization of the status of negation within the phrase structure of Russian that not only contributes relevant Slavic data to the pool of negation data, but also sheds new light on the syntactic expression of negation universally.

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