Les pronoms indéfinis et la négation

Orlandini, Anna

doi:10.1515/joll.2000.5.1.151

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“…Finally, under negative priority attitudes, the attitude holder also prefers not-p to p (e.g., in (15) the 1st person attitude holder prefers not being prevented from doing it to being prevented). With negative priority attitudes, for the whole construction to convey a prohibition or an apprehension towards a negative event, the propositional (or 'verbal') negation non is required, in addition to ne, as in (16a) and (16b) (as mentioned in the synthetic works on Latin by Orlandini 2001;Bodelot 2003;Fruyt 2011;Pinkster 2015Pinkster , 2021. Note that a literal translation for such constructions would involve a double negation.…”

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“…In Lakoff's analysis and, by extension, in Mari and Tahar (2020)'s, it is argued that ne in embedded position is a complementizer (a hypothesis shared by Vincent 1988, Orlandini 2001, Roussou and Robert 2003, Fruyt 2011, Lakey 2015, which is selected by the embedding verb and has the capacity of selecting a subjunctive clause. In both cases, however, we have to stipulate hidden mechanisms or operators, which, for methodological reasons, we prefer to abstain from.…”

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“…We draw on extensive qualitative data from several classical Latin grammars, as well as more recent ones (see Reference Grammars). Furthermore, we rely on data from several works that have extensively studied the Latin negator ne(Lakoff 1968, Orlandini 2001, Bodelot 2003, Fruyt 2011, Lakey 2015. We also consulted PHI Corpus of Latin works.3 We are very thankful to Igor Yanovich for bringing to our attention the question of mood in root and embedded Latin ne-clauses and related issues.…”

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Turning expletive: From embedded speech-acts to embedded propositions

Tahar,

Mari

2023

Can. J. Linguist.

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This article focuses on a non-canonical use of negation in historical and modern French, characterized by an apparent absence of meaning: expletive negation. In search of the lost meaning of expletive negation, via a diachronic investigation from Latin to French, we establish that expletive negation originates from prohibitive negation. We put forward an analysis of prohibitive negation within Krifka (2014)'s model of embedded speech-act and propose that expletive negation is the continuation of prohibitive negation, and that it is what remains of a long-gone embedded negative imperative in French. Along this line of analysis, the article brings historical evidence in favour of the hypothesis that languages can develop from speech-act embedding to proposition embedding. Our analysis of prohibitive negation as a clause-typing negation marker in Latin and as a verbal mood negation marker brings new evidence to the claim that sentential and verbal mood marking are two intimately related phenomena.

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Turning expletive: From embedded speech-acts to embedded propositions

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Mari

2023

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“…As to the indefinites quisquam and ullus, they occur in syntactically or semantically negative phrases and, as such, they are analyzed by Orlandini (2000; as negative polarity items. Given the negative value of nisi clauses, one could expect to find quisquam in a nisi clause.…”

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Indefinite pronouns in conditional clauses

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Maraldi

2005

Journal of Latin Linguistics

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This paper starts from the consideration that, when an indefinite pronoun is found in a Latinconditional clause, it is quis in most cases, but in some cases it can also be aliquis or even quidam.Our investigation tries to explain both the usual case represented by quis and the exceptional cases, represented by aliquis. Furthermore, we will take into consideration negative conditional clauses, trying to explain unexpected phenomena like the low number of occurrences of quis and the absence of quisquam in nisi clauses. IntroductionGrammars underline that quis is atonic and occurs enclitic of si and its compounds, of ne, num, an, cum, ubi. In general terms, it can then be said that the contexts of occurrence of quis are those presenting a situation as hypothetical or virtual. The reasons of such a limited co-occurrence appear to be strictly determined by the semantic properties of quis. In particular, one feature appears to characterize quis: the lack of specificity. To explain what we mean by the term 'specific' we will follow Haspelmath's analysis. According to Haspelmath (1997: 37) example (1) may have two readings , a specific and a non-specific one:(1) Nabuko wants to marry a native speaker of Ainu.In the specific reading the existence of a uniquely identified Ainu speaker is presupposed, whereas in the non-specific reading the identity of the Ainu speaker has not been established. The criteria distinguishing specific from non-specific expressions are that only with specific expressions the speaker presupposes the existence and unique identifiability of the referent. In our analysis of Latin indefinites we will show that the two criteria of 'presupposition of existence' and 'unique identifiability' do not always hold together. Certain Latin indefinites require that between the cases of specific reference, characterised by the properties [+presupposition of existence, +unique identifiability] (most cases of aliquis) and the cases of non-specific reference, i.e. [-presupposition of existence, -unique identifiability] (all cases of quis) also cases are found where the referent of the indefinite is given as existing, but it is not uniquely identifiable (some instances of aliquis) .' The contexts allowing two readings are called 'irrealis' by Croft (1983) and Haspelmath (1997).An example of a non-specific reading carrying the presupposition of existence is given by Haspelmath (1997: 41): 'Everybody is reading something'. The example is ambiguous between two Brought to you by |

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Les pronoms indéfinis et la négation

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Turning expletive: From embedded speech-acts to embedded propositions

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