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Negative cycles
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Elly van Gelderen
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27. Oktober 2008
Abstract
Crosslinguistically, negatives change in a cyclical fashion. A particular negative weakens and is renewed by another element. In this article, I provide examples of two distinct negative cycles, one using an indefinite phrase and the other a verbal head as renewal. The examples are taken from Indo-European, Uralic, Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, Haida, Afro-Asiatic, and Chinese. I also provide an account of both cycles using phrase structures and economy principles as in generative grammar.
Keywords:: economy; grammaticalization; indefinite; linguistic cycle; negation; negative concord; negative verbs; syntax
Received: 2007-10-27
Revised: 2008-05-09
Published Online: 2008-10-27
Published in Print: 2008-October
©Walter de Gruyter
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Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
economy;
grammaticalization;
indefinite;
linguistic cycle;
negation;
negative concord;
negative verbs;
syntax
