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https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.66.7
TEACHING NEGATION IN CROATIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Irena Zovko Dinković
orcid.org/0000-0002-5576-2489
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
As one of the unique features of human language, negation in natural languages may be realized in a number of morphological and syntactic ways. It permeates all areas of linguistic study and it is always overtly expressed through various negative words. The term negative word primarily refers to the marker of sentence negation and also includes negative pronouns and negative forms of pronominal adjectives and adverbs. Languages differ typologically in the interpretation of sentences in which the negative pronoun is found in the environment of sentence negation: in languages with double negation (DN), such as standard English, German or Dutch, the negative pronoun in the scope of sentence negation is interpreted as double negation, i.e. affirmation, while in languages with negative concord (NC) all negative words in the scope of sentence negation are interpreted as one semantic negation. A distinction should be made between strict NC languages, such as Croatian and other Slavic languages, which always require negative indefinites in the scope of sentence negation, and non-strict NC languages, such as Spanish or Italian, where negative concord depends on the position of the negative indefinite with regard to the negated verb. The difference between languages with double negation and those with negative concord lies at the core of many debates in linguistics, which primarily concern the semantic nature of negative words. It also presents a great challenge in learning and teaching a foreign language, especially in cases where mother tongue and foreign language belong to different types. The paper discusses a systematic approach to teaching negation in Croatian as a foreign language from a linguistic perspective.
Ključne riječi
negative words; negative pronouns; double negation; negative concord
Hrčak ID:
287152
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Datum izdavanja:
13.12.2022.
Posjeta: 1.176 *