JOURNAL ARTICLE Review: The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach by Sue Brown

What is it about?

This is a JOURNAL ARTICLE Review. Reviewed work: The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach by Sue Brown

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Why is it important?

The study of linguistic negation has a very long tradition, going back to at least Aristotle. However, the most important or the most influential works on negation have been written only recently, i.e. in the last three or four decades. The book under review which is a revised version of Brown’s 1996 dissertation “The syntax of Negation in Russian” (Indiana University) is one of the most recent offsprings of this long tradition. The book’s two central issues, Negative Concord and Genitive of Negation in Russian, are widely known and - the latter in particular - have been in the spotlight of linguistic interest for some time now.