The Syntax of Surprise

The Syntax of Surprise
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 240
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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Surprise by : Matteo Greco

Download or read book The Syntax of Surprise written by Matteo Greco and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negation is a universal syntactic phenomenon only employed in human languages. People use negative sentences in everyday conversations, and they display complex semantic and syntactic properties when doing so. Crucially, some languages employ negative sentences to assert affirmative and surprise propositions. A clear example of this is offered by Italian, as in: ‘E non (not) mi è scesa dal treno Maria?!’ (‘Maria got off the train!’). This special type of negation is called surprise negation, and it belongs to the class of expletive negation. This book sheds light on this puzzling phenomenon, by means of a theoretical analysis and an experimental study. It explores the contexts, mainly syntactic, in which negation receives its expletive interpretation, and considers whether expletive negation is grammatically distinct from standard negation.


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