West Germanic diachronic constant: the case of negative constructions

Городілова, Тетяна Миколаївна (2023) West Germanic diachronic constant: the case of negative constructions Studia Anglica Resoviensia (SAR) (20). pp. 58-70. ISSN 1641-7666; 1898-8709

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Abstract

This paper explores the common path of sentence negation patterning in the Early West Germanic languages. The intention is to determine the general set of markers, which realize the negation pattern. Our assumption is that West Germanic languages, as it has been shown in many papers, contrast with East Germanic and North Germanic languages in negation marking. Our aim is to determine the status of the grammatical phenomenon in question within the suggested period. Assuming that all West Germanic languages share a similar sentence negation pattern, we lay special emphasis on their structural characteristics. We also hypothesize that the gradual changes of this period were occurring due to the general rearrangement of these language systems, which incurred the elimination of the redundant elements. According to Jespersen’s Cycle, all the languages under consideration exhibited multiple negation, i.e., the phenomenon of negative concord (NEG-concord). The latter implies that the preverbal negative particles were removed from the negation construction due both to their weakening and to the rise of the new supportive element, which originated from the independent structural unit wiht ‘thing’. The rise of the supportive element in the Early West Germanic languages is considered to be a part of the Common Germanic NEG-concord pattern. This lexical-grammatical element turned out to be the one that permitted further elimination of multiple negation in the West Germanic languages

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: negation; Old Germanic languages; negative concord; grammaticalization; grammatical redundancy
Subjects: Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Erih Plus
Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Index Copernicus
Divisions: Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра германської філології
Depositing User: викладач Тетяна Миколаївна Городілова
Date Deposited: 29 Mar 2024 09:49
Last Modified: 11 Apr 2024 11:15
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/48456

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