The Even Yearbook 12 (2016)

 volume  12 (2016)
 pages  31–45
 author  Marcel den Dikken
 title  Negation Topicalisation
 keywords  negation, topicalisation, contrastive focus, focus particle, extraposition, abstract negation operator
 abstract  Particles which indicate the polarity of a proposition have the entire proposition in their scope, yet typically occur clause-medially, not in the left periphery. In Dutch, however, it is possible to place the negation particle niet in sentence-initial position by itself (immediately followed by the finite verb in a Verb Second pattern), provided that (a) the fronted negation is a contrastive topic and (b) the sentence contains a phrasal contrastive focus in an extraposed, clause-final position. This construction type has things in common with both sentential negation and constituent negation, but does not directly reduce to either. This paper presents an analysis of negation topicalisation that treats niet as a focus particle and mobilises an abstract sentential negation operator. The analysis accounts for the difference between Dutch and English regarding the frontability of negation.
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  author  = {Marcel {den Dikken}},
  title   = {Negation {T}opicalisation},
  year    = 2016,
  journal = {The Even Yearbook},
  volume  = 12,
  pages   = {31–45},
  url     = {http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/16di}
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den Dikken, Marcel. 2016. Negation Topicalisation. The Even Yearbook 12: 31–45. http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/16di