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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453827303321

Autore

Bernini Giuliano

Titolo

Negative sentences in the languages of Europe : a typological approach / / by Giuliano Bernini, Paolo Ramat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1996

ISBN

3-11-081974-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; ; 16

Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; 16

Altri autori (Persone)

RamatPaolo

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives

Grammar, Comparative and general - Quantifiers

Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences

Typology (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Europe Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-260) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations of grammatical terms -- Abbreviations of language names -- Abbreviations of authors and texts -- 0. Introduction -- Part I. The diachronic and areal perspective -- 1. Types of negation in the Romance languages -- 2. The diachronic perspective -- 3. Word order and negation -- 4. The areal perspective -- Part II. The analysis of the Questionnaire -- Foreword -- 5. Sentence and phrase negation -- 6. Quantifier systems -- 7. Morphological typology of negative quantifiers -- 8. The syntax of negative quantifiers -- 9. 'Raising' -- 10. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Index of languages -- Index of authors