1st Edition

On Syntax of Negation

By Robert Boyden Lamb Copyright 1994
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

The central concern of this title, first published in 1994, is the syntactic nature of negation in Universal Grammar, and its relation to other functional elements in the Syntax. The study argues that negation is not a syntactic category on its own; rather, it is one of the values of a more abstract syntactic category, named Σ, which includes other sentence operators, such as affirmation and... Read more

Acknowledgements;  1. The Tense C-Command Condition  2. The Σ Projection  3. Negative Complementizers;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

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