dc.contributor.author
Meinschaefer, Judith
dc.date.accessioned
2025-02-05T09:44:35Z
dc.date.available
2025-02-05T09:44:35Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/46484
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-46197
dc.description.abstract
This study examines the semantic and distributional characteristics of the Spanish negation no when it occurs before nouns and adjectives, specifically, whether these instances diverge from sentential negation, but also from negation via prefixes such as des- ‘dis-’ or in- ‘in-, un-’. Using data from the Spanish Web 2011 corpus, it is shown that the use of no before adjectives aligns with other forms of constituent negation, often resulting in a contradictory interpretation, that is similar to that of sentential negation. However, the interpretation of no preceding nouns exhibits a broader range of interpretations, depending on whether the noun refers to an eventuality, quality, or entity. In such instances, no shows parallels to negative prefixes, frequently indicating privation rather than contradiction. Consequently, no can be analyzed as a building block of phrases, expressing syntactic negation, behaving similarly to other adverbs, as well as a building block of words, expressing lexical negation, resembling Spanish prefix-like elements like cuasi ‘almost’ or ex ‘ex-’. The analysis is couched within the framework of Lexical-Realizational Functional Grammar (LRFG), integrating aspects of Lexical Functional Grammar and Distributed Morphology. This approach does not treat morphology and syntax as separate modules, thus allowing us to account for the variable distribution and interpretation of no by means of a single representation in vocabulary structure, drawing on constituent structure representations which are needed on independent grounds for adverbs and for prefix-like elements.
en
dc.format.extent
41 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Lexical-Functional Grammar
en
dc.subject.ddc
400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik
dc.title
Semantic and distributional patterns of Spanish negation with nouns and adjectives: A Lexical-Realizational Functional Grammar approach
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.16995/glossa.16315
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
9
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.16315
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Romanische Philologie

refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2397-1835
refubium.resourceType.provider
WoS-Alert