窝尼话的否定辖域和否定焦点

Negative Scope and Negative Focus of Woni

窝尼话中否定词m■^(31)的否定辖域是VP,否定焦点跟句子焦点可以不一致,一般情况下,否定焦点可是紧接否定词的核心动词、判断动词、心理动词或能愿动词,也可是句子宾语、补语或动宾短语。此外,否定词m■^(31)的句法地位是一个附缀,它不能单独存在,必须依附在核心动词之上,先否定核心动词,才对VP发生作用。

This paper studies the negative scope and focus of Woni language by using tripartite structure method,supporting the idea that negative scope is VP,and the negative focus is not necessarily the same one with the focus of the sentence.Generally,negative focus can be the main verb,copula verb,psychological verb and auxiliary verb,also the object,complement or verb-object phrase.Syntactically,the negative word“m 31”is a clitic,it cannot appear as a dependent word,and always attaches to the verb followed,negating it firstly and then negating the whole VP.