Not on the edge

Abstract The possibility of topicalizing sentential negation is severely restricted in the Germanic V2-languages. In this paper, we show that negative preposing was more frequent and less restricted in earlier stages of Swedish: approx. 8 % of all occurrences of negation are clause initial in Old Swedish, compared to less than 0.5 % in present day Swedish. We propose that this change in frequency can be traced to the syntactic status of the negative element. More specifically, we argue that Old Swedish eigh ‘not’ may function as a syntactic head and cliticize to the finite verb in [$ C^

Verfasser: Brandtler, Johan
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Reihe/Periodikum: The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics
Sprache: Englisch
Anmerkungen: © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
ISSN: 1383-4924
Weitere Identifikatoren: doi: 10.1007/s10828-014-9068-4
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-2042972312
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-014-9068-4
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-014-9068-4