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Negation in Contemporary French
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| Author: | Bruno Estigarribia Fioravanti |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
Hello everyone, I'm currently writing a brief account of negation in contemporary French and I'm having trouble finding articles and/or books that aren't dated or that provide some original enlightenment. My claim would be, basically, that we need to abandon the idea of "ne" dropping to explain the different surface forms of negation. Instead, one could contend, for instance, that the basic negation is a simple, postponed one, and that one has to account for the appearance of "ne", not for its "deletion". It may lead nowhere, but perhaps it's an idea worth examining. I'll summarize. Thanks to everyone. Bruno Estigarribia Fioravanti Universite Paris V-Rene Descartes-Sorbonne Departement de Linguistique generale et appliquee brunilda@online.fr |
