Negation That Isn't

Gracanin-Yuksek M.

LANGUAGES, cilt.8, sa.4, 2023 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 8 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3390/languages8040250
  • Dergi Adı: LANGUAGES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this paper I investigate the ne & mldr;ne construction in Turkish, illustrated by Ne Ali ne (de) Esra geldi 'Neither Ali nor Esra arrived'. The meaning of the ne & mldr;ne construction roughly corresponds to the meaning of the neither & mldr;nor construction in English, but the syntactic properties of ne & mldr;ne are somewhat different from those of neither & mldr;nor. I focus on two such differences: one, the fact that ne & mldr;ne can, although it doesn't have to, be accompanied by a negated verb; in fact, a negated verb is slightly dispreferred by speakers (but the presence versus the absence of negation interacts in interesting ways with negative concord); and two, the fact that the ne & mldr;ne construction cannot be embedded under a wide-scope question particle -mI except when the verb is negated.