Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Scope of negation in Bengali
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| Author: | Jonny Butler | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Subject Language(s): |
Bengali
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| Query: |
Bengali (Bangla) has two morphologically distinct negative particles, `na' and `ni'. Ramchand (2002) analyses these two markers as being logically distinct also, `na' serving to negate the event, `ni' to negate the proposition.
If this is so, we might expect that `na' and `ni' differ quite generally in their scope behaviour - does anyone know of, or do, any work on the interactions of `na' and `ni' with other scope bearing elements in Bengali? A summary will appear in due course. Thanks very much, Jonny Butler University of York, UK http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~jrcb100/ |
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| LL Issue: | 8.1471 | |
| Date posted: | 12-Oct-1997 | |
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