Negative Sentences in the Languages of Europe :A Typological Approach ( Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT )

Publication subTitle :A Typological Approach

Publication series :Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT

Author: Giuliano Bernini   Paolo Ramat  

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton‎

Publication year: 1996

E-ISBN: 9783110819748

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110140644

Subject: H04 grammar

Language: ENG

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Chapter

Abbreviations of language names

pp.:  10 – 12

0. Introduction

pp.:  15 – 15

0.2. On negation in general

pp.:  16 – 21

0.4. Organization of the work

pp.:  27 – 29

1. Types of negation in the Romance languages

pp.:  31 – 37

2.1. Towards a reconstruction of the negative sentence in Proto-Indo-European

pp.:  37 – 42

2. The diachronic perspective

pp.:  37 – 37

2.2. Diachronic developments

pp.:  42 – 44

2.3. Reinforcement of NEG: the creation of new negative morphemes

pp.:  44 – 49

3. Word order and negation

pp.:  49 – 49

3.1. Preverbal negation

pp.:  49 – 54

3.2. Postverbal negation

pp.:  54 – 58

3.4. The negative verb

pp.:  58 – 61

3.3. Discontinuous negation

pp.:  58 – 58

4. The areal perspective

pp.:  61 – 61

4.1. Geographical distribution

pp.:  61 – 63

4.2. Areal typology

pp.:  63 – 65

4.3. Sentence final negation in Afrikaans and its Portuguese basis

pp.:  65 – 97

Part II: The analysis of the Questionnaire

pp.:  97 – 99

The questionnaire, the type of inquiry

pp.:  99 – 103

Foreword

pp.:  99 – 99

5. Sentence and phrase negation

pp.:  103 – 103

5.1. The sentence Q1: negation in replies to ‘yes/no’ questions [‘NO’]

pp.:  103 – 106

5.2. Sentences Q2 and Q34: anaphoric holophrastic negation [‘NEGHOL’]

pp.:  106 – 114

5.3. Sentences Q3, Q4: negative coordination

pp.:  114 – 120

5.4. Sentences Q6, Q7: phrasal negation

pp.:  120 – 123

5.5. Sentence Q5: the simple negative sentence

pp.:  123 – 126

5.6. Sentences Q37, Q38: the negative imperative

pp.:  126 – 131

6.1. Introduction

pp.:  131 – 132

6. Quantifier systems

pp.:  131 – 131

6.2. “Tertia comparationis”: semantic value and grammatical categories

pp.:  132 – 134

6.3. Characterisation of the value of quantifiers

pp.:  134 – 142

6.4. Types of quantifier oppositions

pp.:  142 – 150

6.5. Typology of the quantifier systems

pp.:  150 – 154

6.6. Systems of indefinite and negative pronouns in Europe

pp.:  154 – 157

6.7. Observations on the S items

pp.:  157 – 165

7.2. The inventories of negative quantifiers: semantics and grammar

pp.:  165 – 168

7. Morphological typology of negative quantifiers

pp.:  165 – 165

7.1. Introduction

pp.:  165 – 165

7.3. The morphological organisation of the inventories

pp.:  168 – 176

7.4. Types of inventories

pp.:  176 – 182

7.5. Negative quantifiers in adjectival function

pp.:  182 – 185

7.6. No-one, Ulysses and Polyphemus

pp.:  185 – 195

8. The syntax of negative quantifiers

pp.:  195 – 195

8.1. Co-occurrence of quantifiers with sentence negation

pp.:  195 – 198

8.2. Co-occurrence of negative quantifiers

pp.:  198 – 202

8.3. The syntax of quantifiers and sentence negation

pp.:  202 – 207

8.4. The syntax of negative adjectives

pp.:  207 – 219

9. ‘Raising’

pp.:  219 – 225

10. Conclusions

pp.:  225 – 225

10.1. Parameters of comparison

pp.:  225 – 227

10.2. Parameter α: Q1 (‘NO’) and Q5 (‘NEGPRED’)

pp.:  227 – 229

10.3. Parameter β: Q1 (‘NO’) and Q2 (‘NEGHOL’)

pp.:  229 – 229

10.4. Parameter γ: Q2 (‘NEGHOL’) and Q34 (‘QUAM NON’)

pp.:  229 – 230

10.5. Parameter δ: Q3b (‘NECF’) and Q5 (‘NEGPRED’)

pp.:  230 – 231

10.6. Parameter ε: Q37a (‘NEGPROHIB’) and Q5 (‘NEGPRED’)

pp.:  231 – 232

10.7. Parameter ϑ: ‘permeability’ of NEG

pp.:  232 – 233

10.8. Concluding remarks

pp.:  233 – 235

Notes

pp.:  235 – 261

References

pp.:  261 – 275

The questionnaire

pp.:  275 – 275

Appendix

pp.:  275 – 275

a) English version

pp.:  275 – 276

b) Italian version

pp.:  276 – 279

Index of languages

pp.:  279 – 285

Index of authors

pp.:  285 – 289

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