Download or read book Sentential Negation in French written by Paul Rowlett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and personne. His conclusions have far-reaching implications, leading to the controversial hypothesis that, despite widespread belief, French is not a negative concord language.