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UNINA9910480049303321 |
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Negation and negative concord : the view from Creoles / / edited by Viviane Déprez, Fabiola Henri |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (339 pages) |
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Collana |
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Contact language library ; ; Volume 55 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Creole dialects - Negatives |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Negation and negative concord: the view from Creoles / Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri -- I. French related Creoles: Sentential negation and negative words in Guadeloupean Creole / Simon Petitjean and Emmanuel Schang -- What is negative? Negative Concord Items, constituent, sentential and expletive negation in Haitian Creole / Viviane Déprez -- A lexicalist account of negation and negative concord in Mauritian / Fabiola Henri -- II. English related Creoles: Negation in Pichi (Equatorial Guinea): The case for areal convergence / Kofi Yakpo -- Licensing negation and negative concord in Atlantic creoles: The case of Vincentian / Paula Prescod -- Negation in Singapore English / Luwen Cao and Zhiming Bao -- III. Portuguese related Creoles: Negation in Cape Verdean Creole: A parametric account / Marlyse Baptista and Emanuel Correia de Pina -- Elements of denial in Capeverdean: The negator ka and the properties of n-words / Fernanda Pratas -- Negation in Korlai Indo-Portuguese / J. Clancy Clements / Negation and negative concord in Guinea-Bissau Kriyol (in comparison with Portuguese, substrate-adstrate languages and other Portuguese Creoles) / Alain Kihm -- IV. Other lexifier: Negation in Palenquero: Syntax, pragmatics, and change in progress / Armin Schwegler -- Cross-linguistic negation contrasts in co-convergent contact languages |
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/ Peter Slomanson -- Conclusions / Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers. |
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