On negative particles and negative polarity in Hungarian

Laczkó, T.: On negative particles and negative polarity in Hungarian.
Proc. LFG Conf. 15, 166-186, 2015.

DEA

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authors:

Laczkó Tibor

published:

2015

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article

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research article/review article

journal:

Proceedings of the LFG Conference (ISSN: 1098-6782)

language:

English

HAC:

Humanities, Linguistics

abstract:

In this paper, I modify and augment my LFG-XLE analysis of negation in Hungarian proposed in Laczkó (2014b) by (i) developing an account of the special uses of negative particles (ii) capturing their interaction with negative polarity items (iii) presenting a formal treatment of suppletive negative variants of the copula. In addition, I argue for a particular distribution of labour in my approach for the three standard XLE devices for handling negation phenomena across languages.