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In:The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd
[Studies in Language Companion Series 217] 2021
► pp. 137–162

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Chapter 6
Perfect and negation

Evidence from Lithuanian and sundry languages

 | Russian Academy of Sciences | Russian State University for the Humanities
Published online: 9 July 2021
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Abstract
I analyze the interaction of the periphrastic perfect and negation in Lithuanian, where the negative prefix can attach both to the auxiliary and to the lexical verb. I argue that the position of negation correlates with its semantic scope with respect to the perfect. The Lithuanian data are compared to those of the genetically related and geographically neighbouring languages, such as Latvian, Slavic vernaculars and Baltic Finnic, as well as to a number of similar phenomena in different languages of Eurasia that possess constructions expressing the low scope of negation with respect to the perfect or resultative.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Perfect and negation: General remarks
  • 3.General remarks on Lithuanian perfect
  • 4.Perfect and negation in Lithuanian
  • 5.Perfect and negation in the East Baltic area
  • 6.Some parallels in Eurasia
  • 7.Summary and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • Sources
  • References
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Sources
AAM – Araneum Anglicum Maius, <[URL]>
ABM – Araneum Bulgaricum Maius, <[URL]>
AHM – Araneum Hispanicum Maius, <[URL]>
AIM – Araneum Italicum Maius, <[URL]>
BNC – British National Corpus, <[URL]>
LKT – Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos tekstynas (Corpus of Modern Lithuanian), <[URL]>
LRPC – Latvian-Russian Parallel Corpus, <[URL]>
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