1st Edition

On the Syntax of Negation

By Itziar Laka Copyright 1994

    First Published in 1994. This is an investigation to explore certain syntactic phenomena induced by sentence negation in Basque and English. In this study of linguistics the author attempts to provide a unified account of them, based on a universal requirement on functional heads. The requirement called the Tense C-command Condition requires that all functional heads in the clause that are propositional operators should be c-commanded by the head Tense at S-structure

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix CHAPTER 1 THE TENSE C-COMMAND CONDITION CHAPTER 2 THE E PROJECTION CHAPTER 3 NEGATIVE COMPLEMENTIZERS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

    Biography

    Laka, Itziar