Esquisse de caractérisation typologique de la négation Roumaine
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This sketch, a corrolary of research in contrastive linguistics and
which is of special interest for the linguistic typology —from the
morpho-syntactic perspective— is based on the stratificational principle
of language. Following this principle, the author distinguishes three main
types of negation: 1) Prophrastic negation (cf. rom. JVu;; engl. No); 2)
Verbal or morphological negation (cf. rom. nu2; engl. [do/does] not); 3)
Lexematic negation (cf. rom. nimeni, nicäierí etc.; engl. nobody, nowhere etc.) —defined and illustred through examples in various languages. Taking into account the paradigmatic inventory of the «assertive adverbs» too (cf. Pohl 1972), the author concludes that, as regards the expression of negation, Romanian is a language with tautophonic (homonymie) prophrastic and verbal negations, with an inventory of three assertive adverbs (da; nu; ba da) and allowing for the coexistence of both the verbal and the lexematic negations in the same sentence. The closing lines of the sketch include some remarks of historical order with reference to the romance character of the above linguistic subtype and to the possibility of the substratum influence over its formation.
which is of special interest for the linguistic typology —from the
morpho-syntactic perspective— is based on the stratificational principle
of language. Following this principle, the author distinguishes three main
types of negation: 1) Prophrastic negation (cf. rom. JVu;; engl. No); 2)
Verbal or morphological negation (cf. rom. nu2; engl. [do/does] not); 3)
Lexematic negation (cf. rom. nimeni, nicäierí etc.; engl. nobody, nowhere etc.) —defined and illustred through examples in various languages. Taking into account the paradigmatic inventory of the «assertive adverbs» too (cf. Pohl 1972), the author concludes that, as regards the expression of negation, Romanian is a language with tautophonic (homonymie) prophrastic and verbal negations, with an inventory of three assertive adverbs (da; nu; ba da) and allowing for the coexistence of both the verbal and the lexematic negations in the same sentence. The closing lines of the sketch include some remarks of historical order with reference to the romance character of the above linguistic subtype and to the possibility of the substratum influence over its formation.
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