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SUMMARY:More on negation in Brazilian Portuguese - Sonia Cyrino (Universit
 y of Campinas)
DTSTART:20221101T130000Z
DTEND:20221101T141500Z
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CONTACT:Onkar Singh
DESCRIPTION:It has been shown in several works (Schwenter 2005\, Cavalcant
 e 2007\, 2012\, Biberauer & Cyrino 2009\, Cyrino & Biberauer 2009\, Teixei
 ra de Sousa 2015) that Brazilian Portuguese (BP) has three positions for t
 he negative marker não in sentential negation (não-V\, não-VP-não\, an
 d V-não)\, and they are related to different pragmatic/discourse function
 s. However\, a fourth and reportedly recent position for the negative mark
 er has been noted in the literature about BP (Cyrino 2010\, 2013\, De Paul
 a 2014): não is possible between an auxiliary and an uninflected verb\, t
 hat is\, in the slot in the structure AUX ___ V[-finite]. \n\nIn this talk
 \, I advance an analysis for this new position of não in BP. Although syn
 cretic with sentential negation\, I show that this negative marker is an i
 nstance of constituent negation. Following the nanosyntax approach in DeCl
 ercq (2013)\, I entertain the hypothesis that this fourth não is a Focneg
  item in contemporary BP\, as the result of a diachronic reanalysis. I pro
 pose that Focnão has its origin in prefixal não-\, with which it is sync
 retic. It has been detected (Campos 2002\, 2009\; Pereira 2012) that prefi
 xal não- was rarely used in the 16th century\, becoming more frequent in 
 the 20th century. Since contemporary BP has been shown (Cyrino 2010\, 2013
 ) to allow certain elements such as clitics and emphatic subjects to occur
  in the AUX ___ V[-finite] structure\, \nthe diachronic reanalysis of the 
 prefixal não- into Focneg might have been facilitated.
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