Exploring the syntax/diachrony of a recent type of negation in BP
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negation, nanosyntax, Brazilian Portuguese, diachronic syntaxResumo
In this squib, I describe a novel type of negation in Brazilian Portuguese that has been found in oral/informal speech, whereby the negative marker não appears between an auxiliary and a lexical verb. I advance an analysis based on the nanosyntax approach to syntax in order to explain this low position of negation, uncommon in other Romance languages. Given its properties, I propose that this new kind of negation is best analyzed as Focus Negation, merged in the low left periphery of the clause. Additionally, I present my hypothesis on why this type of focus negation may have evolved and became possible in the language.
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