CJJ44 Morphosyntax of negation

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Karen De Clercq (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 12. 10. 12:00–13:40 B2.33
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
CJJ44/01: Wed 14:00–15:40 G12, P. Caha
Prerequisites
Familiarity with Nanosyntax is an asset, but not required. If you are not familiar with the framework, please let me know at karen.de-clercq@cnrs.fr
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 6/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The content of this course consists of two parts. In part I, negation will be briefly discussed as it is dealt with in lots of the generative literature, to move on to a nanosyntactic perspective with a focus on how meaningful syncretism patterns (i.e. *ABA) can be found across different types of negative markers in a crosslinguistic sample (De Clercq 2013, 2018, 2020). This perspective will lead to a discussion of 1° the internal structure of negative markers, 2° bipartite negation, 3° constraints on stacking negative markers, and 4° different types of low(er) scope negation and negative suppletion. In the second part of the course the interaction of standard negation (Miestamo 2005) with the TAM-domain will be the main focus. We will discuss how negative allomorphy conditioned by TAM and/or TAM allomorphy conditioned by negation can be captured in nanosyntax. In addition, negation-related topics like polarity focus, and negative concord will be discussed.
Syllabus
  • Sept 28 Negation in GG and Nanosyntax Oct 5 *ABA and the internal structure of negation Oct 12 Bipartite negation (Brno) Oct 19 *NEG NEG Oct 26 Unproductive NEG-markers Nov 2 no class Nov 9 Negative suppletion (Korean) Nov 16 NEG-TAM: portmanteaus and allomorphy (Bambara) Nov 23 Polarity focus (Coptic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Sicilian) Nov 30 Negative concord (Egyptian Arabic, Berber, French) Dec 7 Mood-conditioned negative allomorphy (Latin) The seminars start on Sept 28, and they take place online at https://meet.jit.si/nanosyntax
Literature
  • Baunaz, Lena, Karen De Clercq, Liliane Haegeman & Eric Lander (eds.). 2018. Exploring nanosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Miestamo, Matti. 2005. Standard negation. The negation of declarative verbal main clauses in a typological perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • De Clercq, Karen. 2013. A unified syntax of negation. Ghent: University of Ghent Phd dissertation.
  • De Clercq, Karen. 2020. The morphosyntax of negative markers. A nanosyntactic account. Mouton de Gruyter.
  • De Clercq, Karen. 2018. Syncretisms and the morphosyntax of negation. In Lena Baunaz, Karen De Clercq, Liliane Haegeman & Eric Lander (eds.), Exploring nanosyntax. 180–204. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Teaching methods
lectures, reading
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
Teacher's information
Karen De Clercq is a CNRS researcher affiliated with the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle at Université Paris Cité. She has been working on negation since her PhD, combining typology with nanosyntax to advance the understanding of negation as a linguistic universal. She has also worked on degree morphology (with Pavel Caha, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, and Michal Starke) and adverbial V3 patterns (with Liliane Haegeman). She is the author of The morphosyntax of negative markers. A nanosyntactic perspective (De Clercq 2020), and a co-editor of Exploring Nanosyntax (Baunaz et al. 2018).
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