Adam Przepiorkowski, Marek Swidzinski

Polish Verbal Negation Revisited:
A Methamorphosis vs. HPSG Account

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Abstract

This report presents two syntactic analyses of Polish verbal negation set up in two different linguistic formalisms: Metamorphosis Grammar and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. After presenting a plethora of facts concerning verbal negation, we move to providing a detailed metamorphosis account of these facts. We also sketch an HPSG analysis of the same coverage suggesting how both formalisms can capture various linguistic generalizations in an elegant way.

Key words: formal grammars, metamorphosis grammar, HPSG, negative concord, n-words, genitive of negation, unbounded dependency constructions, verb clusters.