Negation and Clausal Structure - A Comparative Study of Romance Languages

Zusatztext Zanuttini is absolutely at the cutting edge of research both in Romance languages and in theoretical syntax....A significant contribution to the field. Klappentext Every language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence. This ability may be expressed in different ways. Zanuttini's goal is to characterize the range of such variation by comparing the variations exhibited by one language family, the Romance languages, and by reducing the differences to a constrained set of choices available to the particular grammars of these languages. Zusammenfassung Every language has a syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence. Zanutti aims to show the range of variation in this ability by comparing the romance languages, and to reduce the differences to a constrained set of choices available to the grammar of these languages.

Product details

• Authors: Zanuttini, Raffaella Zanuttini, Raffaella (Assistant Professor of Lingu Zanuttini
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.1997
• EAN: 9780195080551
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508055-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; French, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology