Aspects of discontinuous negation in Santome
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Tjerk Hagemeijer
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the expression of negation in Santome, one of the four Portuguese-based creole languages spoken in the Gulf of Guinea, focusing especially on its standard discontinuous sentence negation pattern. It will be shown that the distribution of the final negation marker is strongly related to complementation and adjunction, thereby providing evidence for the syntactic position of the negation markers in the clause. Other topics addressed are the negation cycle in the Gulf of Guinea creoles, negative concord and minimizers, and negative coordination.
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the expression of negation in Santome, one of the four Portuguese-based creole languages spoken in the Gulf of Guinea, focusing especially on its standard discontinuous sentence negation pattern. It will be shown that the distribution of the final negation marker is strongly related to complementation and adjunction, thereby providing evidence for the syntactic position of the negation markers in the clause. Other topics addressed are the negation cycle in the Gulf of Guinea creoles, negative concord and minimizers, and negative coordination.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde and Kanuri 7
- The impact of clause types and focus control, aspect, modality, and referentiality on negation in Lamang and Hdi (Central Chadic) 21
- Quantification and polarity 57
- Negation patterns in Kanuri 71
- Songhay verbal negation in its dialectal and areal context 93
- Negation in Jukun 107
- Negation marking in Igbo 121
- Aspects of discontinuous negation in Santome 139
- Negation in Gur 167
- Double negation-marking 205
- Negation in South Mande 223
- From double negation to portmanteau 261
- The system of negation in Berber 287
- Verb-object-negative order in central Africa 307
- Language index 363
- Name index 365
- Subject index 367
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde and Kanuri 7
- The impact of clause types and focus control, aspect, modality, and referentiality on negation in Lamang and Hdi (Central Chadic) 21
- Quantification and polarity 57
- Negation patterns in Kanuri 71
- Songhay verbal negation in its dialectal and areal context 93
- Negation in Jukun 107
- Negation marking in Igbo 121
- Aspects of discontinuous negation in Santome 139
- Negation in Gur 167
- Double negation-marking 205
- Negation in South Mande 223
- From double negation to portmanteau 261
- The system of negation in Berber 287
- Verb-object-negative order in central Africa 307
- Language index 363
- Name index 365
- Subject index 367
