Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd
[Studies in Language Companion Series 217] 2021
► pp. 137–162
Chapter 6Perfect and negation
Evidence from Lithuanian and sundry languages
I analyze the interaction of the periphrastic perfect and negation in Lithuanian, where the negative prefix can attach both to the auxiliary and to the lexical verb. I argue that the position of negation correlates with its semantic scope with respect to the perfect. The Lithuanian data are compared to those of the genetically related and geographically neighbouring languages, such as Latvian, Slavic vernaculars and Baltic Finnic, as well as to a number of similar phenomena in different languages of Eurasia that possess constructions expressing the low scope of negation with respect to the perfect or resultative.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Perfect and negation: General remarks
- 3.General remarks on Lithuanian perfect
- 4.Perfect and negation in Lithuanian
- 5.Perfect and negation in the East Baltic area
- 6.Some parallels in Eurasia
- 7.Summary and conclusions
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References
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.217.06ark