On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism

In this paper the authors describe two different cases of CP negation in Sicilian dialects. The first element is a left periphery adverb that is derived from a grammaticalized negative cleft. The second one is a negative head that is lexicalized when a higher functional projection is activated. Whil...

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Autores principales:	Jacopo Garzonio, Cecilia Poletto
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015
Materias:	negation Italian dialects Sicilian Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5e7a5586bcd24677847e097b060ff2272021-12-01T12:14:18ZOn Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism10.5565/rev/isogloss.182385-4138https://doaj.org/article/5e7a5586bcd24677847e097b060ff2272015-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/18https://doaj.org/toc/2385-4138In this paper the authors describe two different cases of CP negation in Sicilian dialects. The first element is a left periphery adverb that is derived from a grammaticalized negative cleft. The second one is a negative head that is lexicalized when a higher functional projection is activated. While the two items display a set of relevant differences, it is argued that they exemplify two possible cases of syntactic parasitism. The term is used to indicate that either the position of the parasitic element is “borrowed” from another type of category (in the present case it is Focus) or the presence of a given head (a negative morpheme in this case) is licensed by the presence of a different item in a proximate structural position. The existence of similar phenomena is potentially very interesting for the theoretical definition of the syntactic architecture and its economy and design principles.Jacopo GarzonioCecilia PolettoUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticlenegationItalian dialectsSicilianRomanic languagesPC1-5498Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENIsogloss (2015)
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topic	negation Italian dialects Sicilian Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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description	In this paper the authors describe two different cases of CP negation in Sicilian dialects. The first element is a left periphery adverb that is derived from a grammaticalized negative cleft. The second one is a negative head that is lexicalized when a higher functional projection is activated. While the two items display a set of relevant differences, it is argued that they exemplify two possible cases of syntactic parasitism. The term is used to indicate that either the position of the parasitic element is “borrowed” from another type of category (in the present case it is Focus) or the presence of a given head (a negative morpheme in this case) is licensed by the presence of a different item in a proximate structural position. The existence of similar phenomena is potentially very interesting for the theoretical definition of the syntactic architecture and its economy and design principles.
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author	Jacopo Garzonio Cecilia Poletto
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title	On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism
title_short	On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism
title_full	On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism
title_fullStr	On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism
title_full_unstemmed	On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism
title_sort	on preverbal negation in sicilian and syntactic parasitism
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On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism

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