The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach

✍ Scribed by Sue Brown

• Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 168
• Series: Stanford Monographs in Linguistics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a Minimalist analysis of certain syntactic phenomena in Russian associated with negation. These phenomena include the distribution of morphologically negative words and the pattern of Negative Concord they exhibit (whereby multiple occurrences of negative words are interpreted as only one instance of negation); the Genitive of Negation (the case marking on the internal argument of negated verbs); expletive negation (formal negation without negative content), and negated Yes/No questions (including a previously undiscussed pattern of expletive negation effects observed in certain types of Yes/No questions). The end result is a formalization of the status of negation within the phrase structure of Russian that not only contributes relevant Slavic data to the pool of negation data, but also sheds new light on the syntactic expression of negation universally.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Negation Phenomena in Russian
Chapter 2: The Minimalist Program
Chapter 3: Negative Constituents in Russian
Chapter 4: The Genitive of Negation
Chapter 5: Expletive ne and the Asymmetry of Russian Negation
Chapter 6: Expressing Negation
References
Index