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Prohibition:negative imperatives and the parametric typology of negation

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Summary, in English

A number of researchers have offered hypotheses about the syntactic relationship between Tense and Negation. Zanuttini 1996, for example, has argued that the head NEG may only occur in the presence of Tense. This paper examines data on negation in 15 languages which has been collected in an ongoing typological research project, PARATYP. The study focuses on the difference between prohibitive and non-prohibitive negations, since the imperative form in some languages may or may not include the feature Tense. Our data confirms Zanuttini’s hypothesis that the relationship between Tense and Negation is mirrored in the patterns of cooccurence of these two categories. We identify two parametric types of

Negation based on Zanuttini’s two types and investigate whether it is possible to use the distribution of the prohibitive negative as a diagnostic tool for determining the Negation type found in each language.

Publishing year

1999

Language

English

Publication/Series

Working Papers, Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics

Volume

47

Document type

Working paper

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Status

Published