Negation and Focus Clash in Sardinian
type: Dataset
description: Sardinian is a Romance language that resorts to various strategies to express total and partial questions. Apart from intonation, Sardinian makes a particular use of the marker a (< lat. aut 'or') and of fronting. The syntactic properties of interrogative utterances presented show the incompatibility of fronting and marking through the interrogative marker a. The paper discusses the reasons for this incompatibility, and it describes the interferences between negation and the interrogatives. The hypothesis presented is that negation and interrogative marking are incompatible because they are associated to different focus domains that come to clash.
landing page: Information Structure and its Interfaces
keyword: book-sections
keyword: focus-sardinian-dialect-interrogatives-negation-clash
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsbookpart
keyword: shslanguehumanities-and-social-scienceslinguistics
issued: 2026-06-04T07:04:55.515443
modified: 2026-06-04T07:04:55.515451
language: en
contact point: Organization
  fn: CCSD

test_moissonnage_selune
type: Agent

Negation and Focus Clash in Sardinian
type: Distribution
format: HTML
access URL: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00756950
issued: 2026-06-04T07:04:55.577941
modified: 2026-06-04T07:04:55.493424