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The Acquired Form of English Negation

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العنوان: The Acquired Form of English Negation
المؤلفون: Nicholas Sobin
المصدر: Atlantis, Vol 46, Iss 2, Pp 1-26 (2024)
بيانات النشر: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN), 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:English language
LCC:English literature
مصطلحات موضوعية: negation, stages of acquisition, top-down syntax, functional categories, maturation, continuity, English language, PE1-3729, English literature, PR1-9680
الوصف: Earlier work on the acquisition of negation in English posits two stages of development, a first stage in which functional categories are not available so that negative forms such as can’t and don’t are analyzed as lexical items, and a second stage in which this initial analysis is completely abandoned in favour of a new analysis incorporating the now available functional categories T and Neg. New lexical forms like can are created as instances of T, and not instantiates Neg. The complete abandonment of the Stage I analysis is forced by the bottom–up/raising orientation of the assumed theoretical framework, which derives forms like can’t by raising Neg to T. I propose an analysis of the acquisition of English negation utilizing top–down derivation. On this view, the Stage I analysis is a segue to the later Stage II analysis in which Neg is introduced into derivation as an adjunct to T ([T [Neg]]). Neg may separate from T giving the appearance of an independent head. Aspects of Neg problematic for a bottom–up approach (e.g. failure to observe the Head Movement Constraint) are resolved by the top–down approach.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1989-6840
Relation: https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/1107; https://doaj.org/toc/1989-6840
DOI: 10.28914/Atlantis-2024-46.2.01
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/0f7490ff4427436780844d4f57ec3da6
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.0f7490ff4427436780844d4f57ec3da6
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19896840
DOI:10.28914/Atlantis-2024-46.2.01