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Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric Licensing, Structure and Interpretation - Studies in Generative Grammar

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Publisher's Synopsis

Expressing negation is a universal property of all human languages. There is considerable variation, however, in the exact ways negation materializes cross-linguistically. Strict Negative Concord differs both from the Negative Polarity Item strategy and the Asymmetric Negative Concord strategy in that the sentence becomes negative only if the sentence negator is overtly expressed in it, irrespective of how many negative expressions are used.

The central aim of this book is to describe Strict Negative Concord in some Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages. In particular, the volume gives an insight into the forms Strict Negative Concord manifests itself in Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian (Slavic), Finnish, Hungarian, Mari (Finno-Ugric) and the closely related Selkup (Samoyedic) to a wide linguistic community. It aims to create a platform for comparison with similar phenomena in well-described European languages.

Book information

ISBN: 9783110754797
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Pub date:
DEWEY: 491.8045
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 300
Weight: 592g
Height: 230mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 19mm