Article published In: Linguistics in the Netherlands 2015
Edited by Björn Köhnlein and Jenny Audring
[Linguistics in the Netherlands 32] 2015
► pp. 142–154
Events, locations and situations
On the interaction of negation and finiteness in Avar
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Published online: 17 December 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.32.11rud
https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.32.11rud
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.
Keywords: finiteness, Caucasian languages, syntax–semantics interface, negation, syntax
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