Negative Concord and the Scope of Negation
In Romance languages like European Portuguese, Negative Concord may not be explained in terms of the licensing of multiple underspecified polarity items by a negative operator; ignoring expletive negation, negative phrases behave as inherent negative items which may constitute a complex negative exp...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1999 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:2209 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/2209 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Negative Concord Neg-Absorption Sentence negation Scope of negation Concordança Negativa Absorció-Neg Negació oracional Abast de la negació |
| Resumo: | In Romance languages like European Portuguese, Negative Concord may not be explained in terms of the licensing of multiple underspecified polarity items by a negative operator; ignoring expletive negation, negative phrases behave as inherent negative items which may constitute a complex negative expression. However, syntactic approaches involving negative sentential projections and relying on specifier-head Agreement of negative items are not able to deal with Negative Concord. Negative Concord is captured by Neg-Absorption, an LF operation which applies in a single negative domain. In what concerns sentence negation, this domain is delimi-ted by an overt strong negative element, the sentence marker or some negative phrase, overtly having scope over the verbal element which checked Tense. |
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