Saturday, February 25, 2012

More on negative fronting


In a previous post here, I talked about the negative fronting construction.   The following two (sexist!) examples show that in the texts a positive contrast with the particle ro'  often seems to be paired with a corresponding negative contrast:



Another interesting note -- previously, I was aware that negative fronting involved the following pattern:

Nuveé {NP|PP} [S...]   "It is not {NP|PP} that ...."


I can now add CP to the list of fronted elements, due to examples like the following:


1 Cor 4:14


1 Cor 7:35


So the revised constructional template for negative fronting is


Nuveé {NP|PP|CP} [S...]   "It is not {NP|PP|CP} that ...."

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