| The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach Contributor(s): Brown, Sue (Author) |
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ISBN: 1575861690 ISBN-13: 9781575861692 Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat OUR PRICE: $51.48 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics - Foreign Language Study | Russian |
| Dewey: 491.75 |
| LCCN: 99-18173 |
| Series: Stanford Monographs in Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 166 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |