Syntaktische und semantische Besonderheiten von Adverb und Negation im Slavischen (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Tschechischen, Russischen und Südslavischen)

Abstract

This paper follows on from investigations by the author on the status of sentential negation, sentential adverbials and adverbial adjuncts in Czech and Russian (cf. Kosta 1998, 2001, to be published in 2003). Based on new theories on Optimality and Minimalism, the attempt is made to examine the syntactic position and semantic characteristics of both types of adverbs (sentential and manner adverbs) on the basis of their relation to sentential negation, and at the same time to deal with such factors as scope, topic-focus articulation, informational structure etc. The derivation of theoretical premises includes corpus linguistic data.