Romanian Negation– Slavic or Romance?
Romanian Negation– Slavic or Romance?
Author(s): Sava Nicoleta Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: Negation; Romance; Slavic; negative marker; negative concord.
Summary/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.
Journal: Analele Universităţii Ovidius din Constanţa. Seria Filologie
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 127-138
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
