О подизању негације у Српском језику

Abstract

A syntactic phenomenon which manifests itself in 'the strong tendency in many languages to attract to the main verb a negative which should logically belong to the dependent nexus' (Jespersen 1917: 53), and which has been extensively studied since mid-sixties (though under different names - negative attraction, not-hopping, negative transportation, and Neg-Raising) has been registered in widely divergent families of languages. This paper presents syntactical-semantic evidence for the existence of Neg-Raising in contemporary Serbian, describes its influence on other syntactic processes and identifies the classes of predicates that govern it. As in other languages, lexical items triggering Neg-Raising in Serbian are subsumable into a number of semantic classes, although whether a predicate within one of these classes will trigger Neg-Raising is not predictable. This gives further support to the hypothesis that Neg-Raising is primarily a lexico-syntactic phenomenon, and that it is not reducible to semantic criteria.

Karakterizacija pojave označene u teorijskoj lingvistici terminom podizanje negacije, testovi za njenu identifikaciju i klasa glagola u savremenom srpskom jeziku uz koje je moguća - osnovni su predmet razmatranja u ovom radu.