Exploring the syntax/diachrony of a recent type of negation in BP
In this squib, I describe a novel type of negation in Brazilian Portuguese that has been found in oral/informal speech, whereby the negative marker não appears between an auxiliary and a lexical verb. I advance an analysis based on the nanosyntax approach to syntax in order to explain this low posit...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Caderno de Squibs |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/57182 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/cs/article/view/57182 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | negation nanosyntax Brazilian Portuguese diachronic syntax |
| Resumo: | In this squib, I describe a novel type of negation in Brazilian Portuguese that has been found in oral/informal speech, whereby the negative marker não appears between an auxiliary and a lexical verb. I advance an analysis based on the nanosyntax approach to syntax in order to explain this low position of negation, uncommon in other Romance languages. Given its properties, I propose that this new kind of negation is best analyzed as Focus Negation, merged in the low left periphery of the clause. Additionally, I present my hypothesis on why this type of focus negation may have evolved and became possible in the language. |
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