Negation Licensing and Clausal Organization

否定许可和条款组织

• 批准号: 9021398
• 负责人: William Ladusaw
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 1994-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9021398&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Negation; Licensing; Clausal; Organization

ABSTRACT Most, if not all, languages have constructions which require 'negative licensing', constructions whose occurence depends on the appearance of an expression of negation somewhere else in the clause. This project explores the phenomenon of Negative Licensing in several languages with differing clause structures, highlighting the differences in Negative Licensing which follow from the different ways in which these languages express the universal semantic and pragmatic category of negation. The Research provides a fruitful testing-ground for current theories of the relationship between the syntactic structure of a sentence and its semantic structure. There is considerable evidence that much of the crosslinguistic variation in Negative Licensing phenomena can be attributed to the surface position of negation in different languages. The investigators use the pattern of Negative Licensing as a probe in the investigation of the role played by the negation-element in the syntactic organization of the clause. The project will result in detailed analyses of the system of negation in several dialects of English, in Irish, and in several other languages in addition to increasing our general understanding of the typology of clause structure in the languages of the world.

摘要 大多数（如果不是全部）语言都有需要“否定许可”的结构，这些结构的出现取决于子句中其他地方否定表达的出现。 该项目探讨了几种具有不同子句结构的语言中的否定许可现象，突出了否定许可的差异，这些差异源于这些语言表达否定的普遍语义和语用范畴的不同方式。 该研究为当前句子句法结构与其语义结构之间关系的理论提供了卓有成效的试验场。 有相当多的证据表明，否定许可现象的跨语言变异很大程度上可以归因于不同语言中否定的表面位置。 研究者使用否定许可模式作为调查否定元素在子句句法组织中所扮演的角色的探针。 该项目将对英语、爱尔兰语和其他几种语言的几种方言的否定系统进行详细分析，此外还会增加我们对世界语言中从句结构类型学的一般理解。