LINGUIST List 17.711

Wed Mar 08 2006

Books: Syntax: Kumar

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Directory         1.    Liz Levine, The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi: Kumar
Message 1: The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi: Kumar
Date: 07-Mar-2006
From: Liz Levine <elizabeth.levinetaylorandfrancis.com>
Subject: The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi: Kumar


Title: The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity
Items in Hindi Series Title: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Published: 2006 Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
                http://www.routledge.com/

Author: Rajesh Kumar, University of Texas at Austin Hardback: ISBN: 0415976464 Pages: 144 Price: U.S. $ 65.00
Abstract:

This books studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sententialnegatives in Hindi. It outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locatesthe syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituentnegatives within the structure. It is argued that sentential negative inHindi negation marker heads its own maximal projection, NegP, which isimmediately dominated by TP.In addition to locating the position of negation markers in the clausestructure, it outlines the distribution of negative polarity items (NPIs)in Hindi and the structural constraints on their licensing by sententialnegative. The book argues that an NPI in Hindi is licensed overtly in thecourse of derivation by a c-commanding negative marker. The bulk of theevidence presented in this book argues against previous theoreticalaccounts that claim that NPI licensing involves covert syntactic operationssuch as LF movement or reconstruction. With respect to the classificationof NPIs , this book also shows the existence of two different types of NPIsin Hindi; namely, strong NPIs and weak NPIs. Strong NPIs require a clausemate c-commanding negative licensor, whereas weak NPIs are quantifiers andare similar to free choice 'any' in English that are interpreted as NPIs inthe presence of a c-commanding negative licensor.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Subject Language(s): Hindi (hin)
Written In: English (eng )

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