RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Espinal, M. Teresa YR 1991 T1 On Expletive Negation Some Remarks With Regard to Catalan JF Lingvisticæ Investigationes VO 15 IS 1 SP 41 OP 65 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/li.15.1.03esp PB John Benjamins SN 0378-4169, AB The aim of this paper is to identify which syntactic structures allow the interpretation of meaningless or expletive negation and under what conditions formal negation appears in the syntax of natural languages, with especial reference to Central Catalan.I shall describe two syntactic environments: (a) the negation which occurs at the subordinate clause of a comparative structure of inequality, and (b) the negation which occurs at the subordinate clause in the subjunctive tense-mood of certain predicates. In both structures I shall assume that there is a lexical item at the main clause which subcategorizes, among other possible complements, for a que (than, that) clause. At D-structure there is, furthermore, a NegP which is the complement of this conjunction. At the level of LF no expletive is specified, because the logical specifications of the lexical items which subcategorize for these subordinate clauses absorb the value of the negative operator., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/li.15.1.03esp