On negation in yes/no questions in Serbo-Croatian

N. Milićević

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    Abstract

    The phenomenon discussed in this paper is the so-called expletive negation in negated yes/no questions in Serbo-Croatian. The term expletive negation seems, at this point to be a useful descriptive term for the phenomenon in question. One of the goals of this paper, however, is to show that it is not the correct one. Proposing the existence of semantically vacuous negation is the consequence of the assumption that sentential negation has a fixed position in the clausal hierarchy (Brown and Franks 1995). This approach cannot account for the relevant data in Serbo-Croatian. My claim is that the cases under consideration involve an alternative position of NegP in Serbo-Croatian, above TP. It is confined to the derivation of one semantic type of negated yes/no interrogatives, and it cannot trigger negative concord.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationUtrecht
    PublisherUil OTS
    Pages29-47
    Number of pages19
    Publication statusPublished - 2006

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    NameUiL OTS Working Papers 2006

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