Chapter 6
Perfect 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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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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Abbreviations
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Sources
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Sources
AAM – Araneum Anglicum Maius, <[URL]>
ABM – Araneum Bulgaricum Maius, <[URL]>
AHM – Araneum Hispanicum Maius, <[URL]>
AIM – Araneum Italicum Maius, <[URL]>
BNC – British National Corpus, <[URL]>
LKT – Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos tekstynas (Corpus of
Modern Lithuanian), <[URL]>
LRPC – Latvian-Russian Parallel Corpus, <[URL]>
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