Research Catalog

Title

Sentential negation in French / Paul Rowlett.

Author

Rowlett, Paul, 1966-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xvii, 233 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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.

Subject

• French language > Negatives
• 18.24 French language
• French language > Negatives
• Französisch
• Negation
• Syntax
• Satzgrammatik
• Ontkenningen (taalkunde)
• Frans

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-223) and index.

Contents

Foundations -- Verbal inflection and Verb Movement -- The syntax of sentential negation -- The Affect criterion -- The Negative Marker -- Configuration 1: pas as an adverb -- Configuration 2: pas and indefinite direct objects -- Jespersen's Generalization -- The Negative Cycle -- NC and Jespersen's Generalization -- The Neg Criterion revisited -- Jespersen's Generalization: analysis -- Counterexamples to Jespersen's Generalization? -- Other Negative Adverbs -- Inventory: negative adverbs and arguments -- Distribution of negative adverbs -- The syntactic status of jamais, plus, guere -- Explanatory power -- Negative Arguments -- Early generative approaches to the syntax of personne and rien -- The syntax of personne -- The distribution of rien -- The formal differences between personne and rien -- Residual issues.

ISBN

• 019511924X
• 9780195119244
• 0195125916
• 9780195125917

LCCN

98018335

OCLC

• ocm38948311
• 38948311
• SCSB-415517

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library