Asztalos, Erika Éva (2023) The expression of constituent negation in Udmurt: From scope-ambiguous to scope-transparent constructions. ACTA LINGUISTICA ACADEMICA, 70 (2). pp. 248-283. ISSN 2559-8201
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Abstract
The study claims that contemporary Udmurt has two main strategies for expressing a ‘constituent negation reading’. Standard Udmurt makes use of inverse-scope constructions involving sentential negation, i.e. a morphosyntactically negated predicate and a pragmatic focus in the scope of negation. The other strategy involves the negator ńe borrowed from Russian, which immediately precedes the negated constituent and combines with a predicate in the affirmative form. Ńe-constructions are analysed as instances of focus negation, with a FocP dominated by a right-branching NegP. The evolution of transparent-scope constructions and of a head-initial NegP are analysed as concomitants of the SOV-to-SVO change of Udmurt.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet > P140 Historical linguistics / nyelvtörténet, történeti nyelvtan P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PH Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literatures / finnugor és baszk nyelvek és irodalom |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2023 09:56 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jun 2023 09:56 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/168478 |
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