On the Non-(Exhaustive and Contrastively Focused) Constituent
Negation in Slavic

D 2020

On the Non-(Exhaustive and Contrastively Focused) Constituent Negation in Slavic

DOČEKAL, Mojmír

Basic information

Original name

On the Non-(Exhaustive and Contrastively Focused) Constituent Negation in Slavic

Authors

DOČEKAL, Mojmír (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Berlin, Current Developments in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty Years After (based on selected papers from FDSL 11), p. 467-483, 17 pp. 2020

Publisher

Peter Lang

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00114226

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-3-631-67673-8

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-07147-4

Keywords in English

formal semantics; negation; Slavic languages

Abstract

V originále

Constituent negation is commonly thought to be a subtype of natural language negation which doesn’t exhibit too radical differences from the more usual verbal negation. In this paper I argue that at least Czech (as representant of Slavic) con- stituent negation is different. I argue that its semantics targets both at-issue meaning and focus alternative meaning. Evidence will come from the interpretational differences between English and Czech w.r.t. negated comparatives adjoined to NPs (like no more than two people) and from many other types of negated constituents. I argue that the cross-linguistic difference is explained if constituent negation is treated as focus oriented particle in Slavic unlike English no which targets scalar (but not focus) alternatives.

Links

GA17-16111S, research and development project

Name: Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

DOČEKAL, Mojmír. On the Non-(Exhaustive and Contrastively Focused) Constituent Negation in Slavic. In Radeva-Bork, Teodora; Kosta, Peter. Current Developments in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty Years After (based on selected papers from FDSL 11). Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020, p. 467-483. ISBN 978-3-631-67673-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-07147-4.

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DOČEKAL, Mojmír. On the Non-(Exhaustive and Contrastively Focused) Constituent Negation in Slavic. In Radeva-Bork, Teodora; Kosta, Peter. \textit{Current Developments in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty Years After (based on selected papers from FDSL 11)}. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020, p.~467-483. ISBN~978-3-631-67673-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-07147-4.

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