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The Origin and Development of Negation in Infinitival Clauses
Tanaka, Tomoyuki
田中, 智之
open access
functional category
infinitival clause
negation
verb movement
This paper investigates the distribution of negative infinitives in the history of English based on the data from historical corpora, and explores the origin and development of negation in infinitival clauses. It is argued that its origin is traced back to the constituent negator not which is adjoined to the whole infinitival clause as PP in Old English. Then, with the rise of functional categories T and C in infinitival clauses in Late Middle English, it was reanalyzed as sentential negation and NegP came to be projected above and below TP by analogy with finite clauses. Finally, it is shown that verb movement to T was lost in infinitival clauses in Early Modern English, leading to the same distribution of negative infinitives as in Present-day English.
名古屋大学人文学研究科
2018-03-31
eng
departmental bulletin paper
VoR
https://doi.org/10.18999/jouhunu.1.17
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/00028170
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/25965
10.18999/jouhunu.1.17
2433-233X
名古屋大学人文学研究論集
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