Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education

Analyses of Negative Operator-caused Syntactic Inversion by Optimality Theory

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Jun Xu
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Jun Xu
Available Online November 2015.
DOI
10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.174How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Optimality Theory (OT); syntax; negative operator; inversion; hierarchical constraints
Abstract

The article analyzes the negative operator-caused syntactic inversion by Optimality Theory on the basis of Yu’s research and Kager’s research in order to further them. When the moved negative operator causes subject-auxiliary inversion and do-support, the movement of the auxiliary verb is the only optimal choice. The inversion with negative operator movement is a little bit different from the wh-operator inversion. Yu’s research has been compared with Kager’s. Yu’s result has been improved and Kager’s research complemented. Kager’s hierarchical constraints are followed.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2015
ISBN
978-94-6252-122-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.174How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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