On the Neg-Criterion in Hungarian

Author: Puskás G.

Source: Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Volume 45, Numbers 1-2, 1998 , pp. 167-213(47)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

The paper argues that Hungarian negative sentences contain a NegP, a functional projection inside IP. The spec-head configuration requirement of the Neg-Criterion is satisfied by a null operator at S-structure. Negative phrases surfacing in different sentence positions enter into a representational chain (attested as Negative Concord), or a derivational chain. Negative chains have a member of them adjoined to Spec NegP, as a result of which they acquire sentential scope. Sem is not an equivalent of nem but the negative counterpart of is 'also'; sem-phrases occupy the specifier of a functional projection above FP.

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Department of General Linguistics 2 rue de Candolle CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland e-mail: puskas@uni2a.unige.ch

Publication date: 1998-01-01