| Title: | Romanian Negation– Slavic or Romance? |
| Author: | Nicoleta Sava |
| Publication: | Analele Universității „Ovidius” din Constanța. Seria Filologie, XVIII, p. 127-138 |
| p-ISSN: | 1223-7248 |
| Publisher: | Ovidius University Press |
| Place: | Constanța |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Abstract: | Languages differ typologically according to whether they allow multiple occurrences on negative words in the same clause, a phenomenon labelled as Negative Concord. Romance languages and Slavic languages both allow NC, the former allowing exceptions in some cases and the latter being a strict NC language. The paper analyses Romanian negation comparing it to the two language families. It is shown that Romanian patterns with Slavic languages in finite contexts and with Romance languages in non-finite contexts. This asymmetry is argued to be due to a weakening of the negative force in non- finite contexts, as negation is assumed to be related to Tense. |
| Key words: | Negation, Romance, Slavic, negative marker, negative concord |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 55, 2012). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2012 | LR, LXII (3), 271-408 | 2013 | pdf html |
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