Russian Negative Exclamatives in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Natalia Zevakhina ()
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Abstract: Relying upon the data of Russian and other languages, this paper discusses various types of negation in exclamatives. It argues that morphological negation is felicitous in exclamatives. However, sentential negation exhibits diversity. Its wide scope variety seems to be absolutely ungrammatical in all the languages under consideration. On the contrary, its narrow scope variety is subject to cross-linguistic variation: some languages exhibit the felicitousness of narrow scope readings in gradable adjectival and quantity exclamatives. Finally, expletive negation makes for a criterion of rhetorical exclamatives

Keywords: exclamatives; rhetorical exclamatives; negation; semantics; syntax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2015
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, March 2015, pages 1-20

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