except for personal clitics in past transitive forms, sorani kurdish has threeverbal prefixes; n?- for negation, be- for subjunctive, and (d)?- for imperfective. thisarticle starts with bringing forth the question of why subjunctive marker in this languagecannot appear with verbal negative or aspect prefixes while there is no problem with the co-occurence of negative and aspect prefixes.after p...

one of the main dichotomies in syntactic analyses deals with the distinction between lexical and functional categories. functional categories gain in stature as the generative grammar moves ahead. they come into play in explaining the derivation stages of phrases and sentences. the present study critically evaluates different approaches to the role and function of one of these functional catego...

t. This paper is part of a study examining how negation is marked in Greek Sign Language (GSL). Head movements which are reported to mark negation in other sign languages have been examined to see if they are also used in GSL. Of particular interest is the analysis of the backward tilt of the head which is distinct for marking negation in GSL. Introduction. Backwards tilt of the head seems to o...

Though negation is unique and central to human language, it has so far received little attention in cognitive neuroscience. The goal of the present study was to investigate the contrast between affirmative and negative sentences using fMRI, focusing on two central aspects, namely, (1) a semantic difference: affirmation is upward entailing, whereas negation is downward entailing; (2) a syntactic...

The expressive power of the family of ILOG (:) languages is investigated. The languages are rule based, with value invention and stratiied negation. The chosen semantics for value invention is based on Skolem functor terms. We show that, in presence of value invention , the whole expressive power is achieved using programs made of two strata, and that ILOG 6 = (i.e., the class of programs with ...