“不”对焦:

Q2 Arts and Humanities Studies in African Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-23 DOI:10.32473/sal.v50i1.128777
Jochen Zeller
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本文研究了班图语祖鲁语(恩古尼语;S42)。我讨论了在祖鲁语中用来否定及物句的四种策略。默认策略是将对象标记添加到否定动词中,通过将对象标记的对象从VP-focus域中错位来表达极性焦点。在第二种策略中,没有对象标记,焦点落在对象或副总裁上。我表明,在这种策略中,否定通常与焦点相关,而不是预设的一部分,我认为这是说话者用这种否定策略报告的(迄今尚未解释的)额外对比推断的原因。第三种策略是将被聚焦的对象从否定范围中移除;因此,否定可以与预设联系在一起。在第四种策略中,宾语名词失去其增广作用,被解释为负极性项。基于Lahiri(1998)的建议,我认为在带有npi对象的否定句中,重点放在与不确定npi对象的语义表示相关的隐式基数谓词上。
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‘Not’ in focus:
This paper investigates the interaction of focus and negation in the Bantu language Zulu (Nguni; S42). I discuss four strategies that are used to negate transitive sentences in Zulu. The default strategy, in which an object marker is added to the negated verb, expresses polarity focus by dislocating the object-marked object from the VP-focus domain. In the second strategy, no object marker occurs, and focus falls on the object or the VP. I show that in this strategy, negation typically associates with the focus and is not part of the presupposition, and I argue that this is responsible for a (hitherto unexplained) additional contrastive inference that speakers report with this negation strategy. The third strategy, a cleft, is used to remove the focused object from the scope of negation; as a result, negation can associate with the presupposition. In the fourth strategy, the object noun loses its augment and is interpreted as a negative polarity item (NPI). Based on a proposal by Lahiri (1998), I argue that in negated sentences with NPI-objects, focus is placed on an implicit cardinality predicate which is associated with the semantic representation of the indefinite NPI-object.
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Studies in African Linguistics
Studies in African Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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