Negation is a unique and fascinating property of human language which has been given extensive theoretical and typological treatment. One categorization divides negation use into metalinguistic negation and descriptive negation (Horn, 1985). Descriptive negation (DN) is the trut…
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Split scope occurs when the negation and indefinite take scope independently of one another. This has been documented in the West-Germanic languages German, Dutch, and English. I apply Zeijlstra (2011)'s framework to the following languages: Azerbaijani, Czech, Macedonian Albani…
This research investigates Pontianak Teochew, a Chinese dialect that originated in the Chaoshan region of Guandong province in China. Pontianak is the capital city of West Kalimantan in Indonesia. The primary goal is to discuss the perfective aspect and negation, and discuss the…
Polarity items are linguistic forms whose distributions are sensitive to negation and other polarity contexts. This dissertation offers a compositional account of what it means to be a polarity item and why polarity items are sensitive to polarity. The grammar of polarity sensit…
The main archive of life sciences literature currently contains more than 18,000,000 references, and it is virtually impossible for any human to stay up-to-date with this large number of papers, even in a specific sub-domain. Not every fact that is reported in the literature is …
The present essay includes six thematically connected papers on negation in the areas of the philosophy of logic, philosophical logic and metaphysics. Each of the chapters besides the first, which puts each the chapters to follow into context, highlights a central problem negati…
This thesis is based on the hypothesis that little is being done to address the problems of climate change and that this is widely denied. It provides a qualitative investigation of thoughts and feelings about climate change and the environment from single interviews with twenty…
This dissertation investigates the verbal system of Persian and is focused on the interaction of modality, tense, aspect and negation in this language. The dissertation challenges the idea that the syntactic structure maps on to the semantic interpretation or vice-versa. It is a…
This thesis presents new data in Turkish concerning phrasing and accent representation, question particle placement, and scope-sensitive prosodic phrasing. The issues at hand are discussed and analyzed within the perspective of minimalist assumptions to syntax and the interfaces…
This dissertation investigates the morphosyntax and pragmatics of Levantine Arabic negation from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. It is shown that the complex distribution of the negation morphemes ma, la and -sh is subject to morphosyntactic and pragmatic constra…
This investigation follows the development of negation of a Najdi speaking child. Previous negation studies have treated negation as one unit (NEG) regardless of its form in the adult language (no and not ). This investigation provides a syntactic account of negation in Najdi in…
This dissertation presents an analysis for sentential negation in English and Arabic within the framework of the Minimalist Program as outlined in Chomsky (1993, 1995). To provide a comprehensive analysis for sentential negation in Arabic, six Arabic dialects are studied, namely…