The Syntax of Negation

by Liliane Haegeman

Book Overview

In this book Liliane Haegeman presents an account of sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework. Building on the work of Klima and Lasnik, Haegeman demonstrates the parallelism between negative sentences and interrogative sentences, and gives a unified analysis in terms of a well-formedness condition on syntactic representations: the AFFECT criterion, instantiated as the WH-criterion in interrogative sentences and as the NEG-criterion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521023483
• ISBN13: 9780521023481
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"