Sentential Negation in French
by Rowlett, PaulFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-09-24
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne , pas , and elements such as jamais and personne . His conclusions have far-reaching implications, leading to the controversial hypothesis that, despite widespread belief, French is not a negative concord language.
Table of Contents
| Abbreviations and Symbols | p. xv |
| Foundations | p. 3 |
| Verbal inflection and Verb Movement | p. 3 |
| The syntax of sentential negation | p. 19 |
| The Affect criterion | p. 36 |
| Summary | p. 38 |
| The Negative Marker | p. 40 |
| Configuration 1: pas as an adverb | p. 42 |
| Configuration 2: pas and indefinite direct objects | p. 57 |
| Summary | p. 84 |
| Jespersen's Generalization | p. 86 |
| The Negative Cycle | p. 89 |
| NC and Jespersen's Generalization | p. 97 |
| The Neg Criterion revisited | p. 107 |
| Jespersen's Generalization: analysis | p. 114 |
| Counterexamples to Jespersen's Generalization? | p. 126 |
| Discussion and summary | p. 135 |
| Other Negative Adverbs | p. 138 |
| Inventory: negative adverbs and arguments | p. 139 |
| Distribution of negative adverbs | p. 141 |
| The syntactic status of jamais, plus, guere | p. 152 |
| Explanatory power | p. 160 |
| Summary | p. 167 |
| Negative Arguments | p. 169 |
| Early generative approaches to the syntax of personne and rien | p. 171 |
| The syntax of personne | p. 173 |
| The distribution of rien | p. 187 |
| The formal differences between personne and rien | p. 190 |
| Residual issues | p. 198 |
| Summary | p. 204 |
| References | p. 207 |
| Index | p. 225 |
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