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Structural and semantic analysis of sentences with two negative elements in Persian

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    1 Linguistics Department,,Islamic Azad University,science and research,Tehran,Iran

    2 Associate Professor of Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran

    3 Institute For Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

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Document Type : Research original ,Regular Article

Abstract

Negation is a cognitive and rational phenomena that reflected in human language in different ways. The purpose of this paper is to study the structure and semantics of different types of sentences in Persian in which there are two negative elements. Double negation and negative concord structure are two well-known types of these structures that have been extensively studied in various languages and they have also been dealt with in Persian. But in addition to these two, Persian has various structures in which two negative elements are used and have not been studied structurally and semantically. The results show that sentences containing two negative elements can be structurally classified into 11 categories and the analysis of their semantic aspects shows that interaction of two negative elements in a single sentence creates a complex semantic situation, that its analysis requires adopting a continuum-based approach to the concept of negation. In other words, although affirmative and negative concepts are introduced in linguistics under the category of polarity, these two concepts in no way are polar or binary, but they are spectral and continuous.

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Language Studies
Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
November 2021
Pages 37-64
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