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Events, locations and situations: On the interaction of negation and finiteness in Avar
Linguistics in the Netherlands. 2015. Vol. 32. P. 142-154.
This paper documents a number of restrictions on negation marking in Avar, a Northeast Caucasian language, and presents a tentative analysis of the observed morphosyntactic facts as having a semantic basis. The two different negation markers are analysed, based on the proposal in (Ramchand & Svenonius 2014), as taking complements of a different semantic type.
Rudnev P., The Linguistic Review 2021 Vol. 38 No. 1 P. 65-99
Bjorkman & Zeijlstra (2018) claim that agreement with the absolutive argument in ergative-absolutive languages follows naturally in an Upwards-Agree (UA) system supplemented by the relation of Accessibility if 𝜙-agreement is parasitic on structural case assigned to the absolutive noun phrase either by T or by v. By drawing evidence from two distantly related East Caucasian ...
Added: May 31, 2019
Rudnev P., Linguistic Inquiry 2020 Vol. 51 No. 4 P. 829-844
This paper discusses novel facts regarding adpositional agreement in Avar in light of recent theories of feature valuation. I show that the traditional notion of downward Agree/upward valuation is sufficient to account for the observed facts, rendering the competing mechanism of upward Agree/downward valuation superfluous. ...
Added: July 26, 2018
Rudnev P., Studia Linguistica 2017 Vol. 71 No. 1-2 P. 154-177
This paper discusses two morphologically related anaphoric pronouns in Avar (Avar-Andic, Nakh-Daghestanian) and proposes that one of them should be treated as a minimal pronoun that receives its interpretation from a λ-operator situated on a phasal head whereas the other is a logophoric pronoun denoting the author of the reported event. ...
Added: September 11, 2017
Rudnev P., Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2020 Vol. 5 No. 1 P. 1-19
This paper discusses two analyses of the Anaphor Agreement Effect (AAE, Rizzi 1990) in the light of novel data from Avar. By demonstrating that Avar anaphors trigger full, non-trivial agreement on the φ-probe, I argue that the Avar data instantiate a genuine exception to the AAE. I then compare two competing analyses of binding and ...
Added: February 1, 2019
Kuhn J., Lena Pasalskaya, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 2020
In natural language, negative concord (NC) describes a pattern in which a negative marking appears on multiple morphological items but a single negation is interpreted. For sign languages, Pfau (2016) argues that negative non-manuals can be seen as instances of negative concord; in RSL, for example, headshake can only appear in negative sentences. Nevertheless, manual ...
Added: November 2, 2019
Zevakhina N., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015. No. WP BRP 21/LNG/2015.
Relying upon the data of Russian and other languages, this paper discusses various types of negation in exclamatives. It argues that morphological negation is felicitous in exclamatives. However, sentential negation exhibits diversity. Its wide scope variety seems to be absolutely ungrammatical in all the languages under consideration. On the contrary, its narrow scope variety is ...
Added: March 26, 2015
Schang F., International Journal of Jaina Studies 2013 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 1-25
The Jain saptabhaṅgī is well-known for its general stance of non-one-sidedness. After a number of debates about the occurrence of contradictory sentences inside the so-called "Jain logic", three main theses are presented in the following: the saptabhaṅgī is a theory of judgment giving an exhaustive list of possible statements; it is not a "logic" in the modern sense of ...
Added: October 30, 2014
Baranova V. V., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015. No. 24.
Focusing on changes to the system of negation in Kalmyk, this paper will discuss the diachronic development of the expression of negation and will examine the results of grammaticalization process in negation system on synchronous level with special attention to innovations occur in colloquial speech. The goal of this paper is to report on a ...
Added: November 9, 2015
Schang F., Logic and Logical Philosophy 2012 Vol. 21 P. 415-438
A general theory of logical oppositions is proposed by abstracting these from the Aristotelian background of quantified sentences. Opposition is a relation that goes beyond incompatibility (not being true together), and a question-answer semantics is devised to investigate the features of oppositions and opposites within a functional calculus. Finally, several theoretical problems about its applicability ...
Added: October 31, 2014
Dobrushina N., Zakirova A., Томский журнал лингвистических и антропологических исследований 2019 Т. 1 № 23 С. 44-55
The article deals with different aspects of language interaction in agroup of neighboring languages in the Akhvakh district of Daghestan, in particular Karata, Tukita, Tad-Magitl’ and Tlibisho (this zone later referred to as Karata cluster). The villages of the Karata cluster are all located within a short walk-ing distanceof 30–120 min from each other, in ...
Added: February 28, 2019
Apresyan V., Intercultural Pragmatics 2019 Vol. 16 No. 4 P. 421-461
This paper presents a corpus study of pragmatic factors involved in interpreting potentially ambiguous sentences with negation and universal quantifiers, as demonstrated by the Russian sentence Oni ne uspejut vsjo eto sdelat’ ‘They won’t have time to do all this.’ Ambiguity in such sentences results from potential differences in scope assignment. If negation scopes over ...
Added: July 18, 2019
Kluck M., Ott D., de Vries M., De Gruyter Mouton, 2015
Added: August 31, 2020
Dobrushina N., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2016.
This paper describes the sociolinguistic situation of Mehweb, a lect of the Dargwa branch of East Caucasian, in the Republic of Daghestan. In the course of several field trips to the village of Mehweb, sociolinguistic interviews were conducted in four neighbouring Avar - and Lak - speaking villages. The paper describes the demographic situation in ...
Added: December 2, 2016
Rudnev, Pavel, Groningen : Wohrmann Print Services, 2015
Added: September 12, 2017
Baranova V. V., Томский журнал лингвистических и антропологических исследований 2020 Т. 4 № 30 С. 9-17
The paper deals with negation markers mar in Chuvash in the context of negation markers in nonverbal
predication in other Turkic variesties. The field data (elicited example and texts) were collected
in Maloye Karachkino, Yadrinsky District, Chuvash Republic in 2017–2019, so the study concerns the
Maloye Karachkino (or Poshkart) dialect. The paper describes in details the uses of ...
Added: February 3, 2021
Schang F., / Springer, Studies in Universal Logic. Series ISBN 978-3-0348-0378 "Around and Beyond the Square of Opposition ". 2012.
A formal theory of oppositions and opposites is proposed on the basis of a non-Fregean semantics, where opposites are negation-forming operators that shed some new light on the connection between opposition and negation. The paper proceeds as follows. After recalling the historical background, oppositions and opposites are compared from a mathematical perspective: the first occurs ...
Added: November 4, 2014
Apresyan V., Essays on Linguistics, China 2019 Vol. No. 57
The paper examines the correlation between the degree of agentivity in Russian causatives and their semantic structure. It supports the view that the distinction between agentivity vs. non-agentivity in causatives is an important feature with various ramifications, as demonstrated in Comrie (1976), Talmy (2000), Shibatani (2001). It also motivates the role of the ‘control’ feature ...
Added: August 23, 2018
Rudnev P., Anna Kuznetsova, Sign Language & Linguistics 2021 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 259-273
This short remark documents exceptions to the main strategy of expressing sentential negation in Russian Sign Language (RSL). The postverbal sentential negation particle in RSL inverts the basic SVO order characteristic of the language turning it into SOV (Pasalskaya 2018a). We show that this reversal requirement under negation is not absolute and does not apply ...
Added: April 14, 2020
Schang F., / Peter Lang - Editions Scientifiques Internationales. Series ISBN 978-3-0343-0537 "The Square of Opposition (A General Framework for Cognition)". 2012.
A general characterization of logical opposition is given in the present paper, where oppositions are defined by specific answers in an algebraic question-answer game. It is shown that opposition is essentially a semantic relation of truth-values between syntactic opposites, before generalizing the theory of opposition from the initial Apuleian square to a variety of alternative ...
Added: November 4, 2014
Schang F., / Epigram Publishing House. Series ISBN 978-83-61231-20-2 "Scientific Knowledge and Common Knowledge". 2009.
Added: November 4, 2014
Apresyan V., Essays on Linguistics, China 2019 Vol. 59 P. 241-262
The paper examines the correlation between the degree of agentivity in Russian causatives and their semantic structure. It supports the view that the distinction between agentivity vs. non-agentivity in causatives is an important feature with various ramifications, as demonstrated in Comrie (1976), Talmy (2000), Shibatani (2001). It also motivates the role of the ‘control’ feature ...
Added: July 18, 2019
Schang F., Studia Humana 2013 Vol. 2 No. 3 P. 31-45
It is claimed hereby that, against a current view of logic as a theory of consequence, opposition is a basic logical concept that can be used to define consequence itself. This requires some substantial changes in the underlying framework, including: a non-Fregean semantics of questions and answers, instead of the usual truth-conditional semantics; an extension ...
Added: October 30, 2014
Amherst : GLSA Publ., 2017
Added: April 15, 2018
Schang F., The Reasoner 2007
It is argued in the present paper that an appealing attempt to save the principle of excluded middle by changing the truth-conditions of negation without losing bivalence and compositionality is a misleading device: not only does it alter the logical constant of negation, but it makes a confusion between levels of language, namely: a first-order ...
Added: October 31, 2014