Syntactic and semantic characteristics of adverbs and negation in the Slavic languages (with special emphasis on Czech, Russian and South Slavic) : Syntaktische und semantische Besonderheiten von Adverb und Negation im Slavischen :[Beitrag zum XII. Internationalen Slavistenkongress in Ljubljana, 15.-21.08.2003]
- This paper follows on from investigations by the author on the status of sentential negation, sentential adverbials and adverbial adjuncts in Czech and Russian (cf. Kosta 1998, 2001, 2003). Based om new theories on Optimality and Minimalism, the attempt is made to examine the syntactic position and semantic characteristics of both types of adverbs (sentential and manner adverbs) on the basis of their relation to sentential negation, and at the same time to deal with such factors as scope, topic-focus-articulation, informational structure etc. The derivation of theoretical premises includes corpus linguistical data.
