Title:

Negation raising and mood. A corpus-based study of Polish sądzić ‘think’ and wierzyć ‘believe’

Creator:

Trawiński, Beata

Publisher:

Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Date issued/created:

2021

Date on-line publ.:

2021

Subject and Keywords:

negation Raising ; subjunctive ; (un)certainty ; performativity ; Polish ; corpus

Abstract:

The paper describes the distribution of two negation raising predicates in Polish: sądzić ‛think’ and wierzyć ‛believe’ in the National Corpus of Polish with a particular focus on their morphosyntax and the mood of their clausal complements. The aim was to examine whether there are any correlations between these two parameters, and to what extent negation raising with those verbs exhibits performative features (in terms of Prince, 1976). The results of the study support the performative approach to negation raising as per Prince (1976) only for cases with subjunctive complements. The corpus findings further imply that Polish negation raising predicates encode two different degrees of (un)certainty concerning the truth of the embedded proposition depending on the mood of their complements. Structures with indicative complements express weaker uncertainty than structures with subjunctive complements.

Relation:

Polonica

Volume:

41

Start page:

111

End page:

127

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

PDF

Resource Identifier:

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Language:

eng

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Access:

Open