Der W-Fragen-Erwerb stellt einen Teilbereich der kindlichen Syntaxentwicklung dar, die sich maßgeblich innerhalb der ersten drei Lebensjahre eines Kindes vollzieht. Eine wesentliche Rolle spielen dabei zwei Bewegungsoperationen, die sich auf die Position des Interrogativpronomens an die erste Stelle der W-Frage sowie die Position des Verbs an die zweite Stelle beziehen. In drei Studien wurde einerseits untersucht, ob deutschsprachige Kinder, die noch keine W-Fragen produzieren können, in der Lage sind, grammatische von ungrammatischen W-Fragen zu unterscheiden und andererseits, welche Leistungen sprachunauffällige und sprachauffällige deutschsprachige Kinder beim Verstehen und Korrigieren unterschiedlich komplexer W-Fragen (positive und negative W-Fragen) zeigen. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf ein frühes syntaktisches Wissen über W-Fragen im Spracherwerb hin und stützen damit die Annahme einer Kontinuität der kindlichen Grammatik zur Standardsprache. Auch scheinen sprachauffällige Kinder sich beim Erwerb von W-Fragen nicht qualitativ von sprachgesunden Kindern zu unterscheiden, sondern W-Fragen lediglich später korrekt umzusetzen. In beiden Populationen konnte ein syntaktischer Ökonomieeffekt beobachtet werden, der für eine spätere Umsetzung der Verbbewegung im Vergleich zur Bewegung des W-Elementes spricht. / Wh-questions represent one important step in the acquisition of children's syntax which generally takes place within the first three years. Two syntactic operations which are related to the position of the pronoun and the position of the verb play an essential role in this process. In three studies it was examined if children acquiring German could distinguish grammatical and non-grammatical wh-questions before being able to produce wh-questions themselves. Furthermore children with typical and atypical language acquisition were compared in their ability to comprehend and correct wh-questions of different complexity (positive and negative wh-questions). The results indicate an early syntactic knowledge about wh-questions in language acquisition and support the hypothesis of continuity between children's and adults speech. Children with typical and atypical language acquisition do not show any qualitative differences in their way to acquire wh-questions. Much rather the time point of acquisition is delayed. An effect of syntactic economy was found in both populations. Children seem to realize syntactic violations against the movement of the wh-element earlier than those against the movement of the verb.

Orientador: Nina Virgínia de Araújo Leite / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T22:49:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Azenha_ConceicaoAparecidaCosta_D.pdf: 1124352 bytes, checksum: 492ce563f023d0f2b303b7e176b4f928 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O presente trabalho propõe sustentar teoricamente uma diferença mínima entre negação como mecanismo de defesa e negação gramatical/linguística na análise de um caso clínico. A estratégia adotada foi a de trazer esse caso convocando para sua discussão teorias linguísticas e psicanalíticas. Nesse sentido, diferenciar caso de vinheta clínica a partir do conceito de não - todo de Jacques Lacan foi determinante para a escolha de percurso realizada, para que a divisão do sujeito pelo inconsciente e seus efeitos para uma transmissão pudessem ser contemplados. O "não saber ler", demanda da paciente que levou à indicação de um tratamento, foi problematizado levando em conta os conceitos de sintoma e inibição na sua relação com a função intelectual e o processo afetivo freudianos. As considerações finais apontam para o que se escreve e o que não se escreve na/da clínica, quando se analisa um relato de caso / Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to analyze a clinical case by theoretically expounding on the minimal difference between negation as a defense mechanism, and grammatical/linguistic negation. The strategy used is to discuss the case in the light of linguistic and psychoanalytic theories. It was essential to choose a path whereby the division of the subject by the unconscious and its effects for transmission could be considered. To this end, a distinction was made between cases and clinical vignettes, based on Jacques Lacan's concept of not-whole. The demand behind the patient's was being referred for treatment did "not know how to read." This demand was questioned, taking into account Freud's concepts of symptom and inhibition in their relationship with intellectual function and the affective process. The final considerations point to what is written and what is not written, in and about the clinic, when one is analyzing a case report / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutora em Linguística

This study was informed by a phenomenon observed by a variety of members from the multidisciplinary team at an acute psychiatric facility, where the researcher works daily. It appeared to clinicians as if the individual between the ages of 18 and 25 years was reluctant to engage in therapeutic intervention. The researcher considered current literature and discovered that this phenomenon seems to be globally relevant and an issue in the field of mental health. Emerging adulthood is the developmental phase that occupies the transitional period between adolescence and adulthood. The life phase is an essential developmental phase where an identity is established and skills are acquired to equip the individual through his/her life process. Emerging adulthood is predominantly defined by the individual’s progress to independence and autonomy and the establishment of a personal and societal identity. Developmental tasks include taking responsibility for him/herself, deciding on future career paths and re-evaluating introjected values to form an independent belief system. Literature indicates that emerging adults’ life phase can cause severe distress due to a variety of social and personal stressors. Emerging adults who are enrolled in university often face additional stressors with regards to adapting to campus life, academic pressure and a need to establish themselves within their new environments. A high prevalence and onset of mental health disorders is noted not only in the general emerging adult population, but also in the population of emerging adults who attend university. Despite the increase in stressful experiences the percentage of emerging adults who experience distress is not reflected in the percentage of emerging adults who actually seek and receive therapeutic intervention as a means to manage their distress. As therapeutic intervention is seen as an effective tool in managing distress, the fact that emerging adults negate the help is a clear area of concern. This urged the researcher to closely consider which factors might lead to negation of therapeutic services by the emerging adult. The study was performed at a South African university where students residing in campus residences where approached to volunteer their participation. In total fifteen participants participated in one of three focus groups with the focus on understanding which factors contribute to the negation of therapeutic services by emerging adults. The data crystallised into eleven main themes with different subthemes to support and describe the relevant main theme. The themes clearly emphasised the lack of awareness, pervasiveness of stigmatisation and the internalised beliefs emerging adults have about themselves and therapy that induce help negation. In addressing the issue of help negation in emerging adults this study suggests solutions and actions to the role players involved in the therapeutic intervention of emerging adults that would support the promotion of mental wellbeing and mental health awareness. / MA (Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

This study was informed by a phenomenon observed by a variety of members from the multidisciplinary team at an acute psychiatric facility, where the researcher works daily. It appeared to clinicians as if the individual between the ages of 18 and 25 years was reluctant to engage in therapeutic intervention. The researcher considered current literature and discovered that this phenomenon seems to be globally relevant and an issue in the field of mental health. Emerging adulthood is the developmental phase that occupies the transitional period between adolescence and adulthood. The life phase is an essential developmental phase where an identity is established and skills are acquired to equip the individual through his/her life process. Emerging adulthood is predominantly defined by the individual’s progress to independence and autonomy and the establishment of a personal and societal identity. Developmental tasks include taking responsibility for him/herself, deciding on future career paths and re-evaluating introjected values to form an independent belief system. Literature indicates that emerging adults’ life phase can cause severe distress due to a variety of social and personal stressors. Emerging adults who are enrolled in university often face additional stressors with regards to adapting to campus life, academic pressure and a need to establish themselves within their new environments. A high prevalence and onset of mental health disorders is noted not only in the general emerging adult population, but also in the population of emerging adults who attend university. Despite the increase in stressful experiences the percentage of emerging adults who experience distress is not reflected in the percentage of emerging adults who actually seek and receive therapeutic intervention as a means to manage their distress. As therapeutic intervention is seen as an effective tool in managing distress, the fact that emerging adults negate the help is a clear area of concern. This urged the researcher to closely consider which factors might lead to negation of therapeutic services by the emerging adult. The study was performed at a South African university where students residing in campus residences where approached to volunteer their participation. In total fifteen participants participated in one of three focus groups with the focus on understanding which factors contribute to the negation of therapeutic services by emerging adults. The data crystallised into eleven main themes with different subthemes to support and describe the relevant main theme. The themes clearly emphasised the lack of awareness, pervasiveness of stigmatisation and the internalised beliefs emerging adults have about themselves and therapy that induce help negation. In addressing the issue of help negation in emerging adults this study suggests solutions and actions to the role players involved in the therapeutic intervention of emerging adults that would support the promotion of mental wellbeing and mental health awareness. / MA (Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

Diese Arbeit untersucht eine Klasse von tendenziösen Fragen, die mindestens im Schwedischen und Deutschen existieren: Rejecting Questions (RQs). RQs unterscheiden sich von anderen Fragen mit deklarativer Syntax u.a. darin, dass die kontextuelle Evidenz, die solche Fragen lizensiert, von umgekehrter Polarität (relativ zur Polarität der Frage selber) ist - positive RQs benötigen Evidenz für eine negierte Proposition, positive deklarative Fragen benötigen Evidenz für eine positive Proposition. In drei Experimenten wird gezeigt, dass i) schwedische negative RQs sich in ihren Lizensierungsbedingungen von negativen deklarativen Fragen unterscheiden, ii) schwedische negative RQs sich in ihrer Intonation von Zurückweisungen unterscheiden, iii) schwedische und deutsche RQs tendenziell unmarkierter zu sein scheinen, wenn sie Negation enthalten. Das dritte Experiment liefert außerdem einen Beitrag zur Analyse der Bedeutung der schwedischen Modalpartikel väl. Ich argumentiere, dass RQs sprecherindizierte Präferenzen für einen eingebetteten Sprechakt ausdrücken. Dieser eingebettete Sprechakt unterscheidet sich im unmarkierten Fall zwischen negativen RQs, welche i.d.R. hypothetische Zurückweisungen sind, und positiven RQs, welche immer hypothetische Assertionen sind. Mit dieser Asymmetrie erkläre ich die Auffälligkeiten in den Lizensierungsbedingungen von RQs, die sowohl im Schwedischen als auch im Deutschen nachgewiesen werden können. / This thesis investigates a class of biased questions that exists at least in Swedish and German: rejecting questions (RQs). RQs differ from other questions with declarative syntax i.a. in that the contextual evidence that licenses such questions is of the opposite polarity relative to the polarity of the question itself - positive RQs require evidence for a negated proposition; positive declarative questions require evidence for a positive proposition. The results of three experiments show that i) Swedish negative RQs differ in their licensing conditions from negative declarative questions, ii) Swedish negative RQs differ in their intonation from rejections, iii) Swedish and German RQs tend to be less marked if they contain negation. The third experiment also contributes to the analysis of the meaning of the Swedish modal particle väl. I argue that RQs express speaker-indexed preferences for embedded speech acts. In the unmarked case, this embedded speech act differs between negative RQs, which are usually hypothetical rejections, and positive RQs, which are always hypothetical assertions. By way of this asymmetry, I explain the peculiarities in the licensing conditions of RQs that can be shown to exist both in Swedish and German.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dulcelita Pereira Ribeiro de Alencar.pdf: 1000876 bytes, checksum: cb301500a1c24eefc5e9ef133c0ba6b9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-12 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This dissertation is within the scope of the actual use of the Brazilian Portuguese, dealing with the negation expressions used by Brazilians. Accordingly, it addresses not only elements of the language system, but also the linguistic variation elements by grammaticalization. The objective hereof is to contribute with grammaticalization studies in the Brazilian Portuguese. The specific purposes are: 1. to analyze the actual use of the negation within the discourse dimension by considering the roles represented by the participants; 2. to verify the actual use within the informativetextual dimension; 3. to address the negation process by differentiating the lexical issues from the grammatical units. The problem dealt with herein is to find out linguistic expressions usually applied in texts and discourses to negate by considering the functional grammatical parameter. The hypotheses set forth herein are the existing difficulties: for the Brazilians is difficulty to say no in view of the cultural aspects. As for the discursive-interaction dimension, the following categories must be regarded: Society, Cognition and Discourse. Within the informative-textual dimension, the relationship between the given information and the new information must be considered according to the informative aspects. The material analyzed is comprised of daily oral dialogs and written texts. This study adopted the analytical-descriptive procedure and considers the dialectic between the social and the individual so as to understand that the systematical grammar is social, as well as the cultural information; the effective use of the individual language producing the system dynamics of the language. The results obtained show that: 1 the negation act falls under the interaction dimension and the use of the negation manners is within the textual-informative dimension; 2. For the Brazilians, to negate the interlocutor s statement is deemed rude; therefore, the lexemes grammaticalization and re-grammaticalization are applied to negate, as a courtesy; 3. The lexemes grammaticalization entails the ressemantização (that is, the establishment of new meanings) of lexemes with cultural implied issues; 4. The re-grammaticalization entails substitution or supplement of the systemic manners. The conclusion hereof is that the negation study is within the scope of the argumentation and entails the social knowledge dynamics / Esta Dissertação situa-se no uso efetivo do português brasileiro, tematizando o exame de expressões da negação, usadas por brasileiros. Dessa forma, aborda tanto elementos do sistema da língua quanto elementos da variação lingüística, por gramaticalização. O objetivo deste trabalho visa contribuir com estudos da gramaticalização no português brasileiro. São objetivos específicos: 1. examinar o uso efetivo da negação na dimensão discursiva, a partir dos papéis representados pelos participantes; 2. verificar o seu uso efetivo na dimensão textual-informativa; 3. tratar a negação, diferenciando léxico de unidades gramaticais. A problematização, neste trabalho, consiste na descoberta de expressões lingüísticas que se fazem presentes nas dimensões textual e discursiva para negar, tendo por parâmetro a gramática funcional. A hipótese que norteia esta pesquisa é o fato de as dificuldades existentes, para o brasileiro dizer não , são relativas a aspectos culturais. Na dimensão interacional discursiva, consideraram-se as categorias, Sociedade, Cognição e Discurso. Na dimensão textual-informativa considera-se a relação entre dado e novo ,, conforme a informatividade. O material analisado compreende diálogos orais do cotidiano e textos escritos. O procedimento adotado, nesta pesquisa, é analítico-descritivo. Parte-se da dialética entre o social e o individual, de forma a entender que a gramática sistêmica é social, assim como os conhecimentos culturais; no uso efetivo da língua, individual, produzindo a dinâmica do sistema da língua. Os resultados obtidos indicam que: 1 o ato de negar situa-se na dimensão interacional discursiva e o uso das formas de negação ocorre na textual-informativa; 2. para o brasileiro, é descortês negar o que seu interlocutor afirma; assim, nega pela gramaticalização de lexemas e pela regramaticalização, como polidez; 3. A gramaticalização de lexemas produz ressemantização com implícitos culturais; 4. A regramaticalização produz substituição ou complementação de formas sistêmicas. Conclui-se que o estudo da negação situa-se na argumentação e propicia a dinâmica dos conhecimentos sociais

A língua portuguesa falada no Brasil (PFB) apresenta uma variação na expressão da negação sentencial. Existem três estratégias: negação pré-verbal (Não quero bolo), dupla negação (Não quero bolo não) e negação pós-verbal (Quero bolo não). Fenômeno encontrado em várias línguas, a variação das estruturas de negação, em alguns casos, depois de um longo período, resulta em uma mudança nos padrões sentenciais, como ocorreu no francês e no inglês. Essa mudança dos padrões sentenciais de negação é chamada de Ciclo de Jespersen. Atualmente, além do português, outras línguas apresentam estruturas de negação sentencial alternativas que, embora apresentem na superfície mais de um operador negativo, são interpretadas como enunciados em que ocorre apenas uma operação de negação. Uma das questões focalizadas pelos estudos sobre a variação nas estruturas de negação sentencial nas línguas particulares, independentemente de se considerar que estejam passando pelo ciclo de Jespersen, é a que diz respeito à motivação para o surgimento de estratégias alternativas de negação. Na literatura, duas são as formas típicas de explicar o surgimento de negações não canônicas nas línguas. Certos autores tendem a interpretar o surgimento de novas estruturas negativas como uma forma de compensar o enfraquecimento fonético do operador de negação original. Outros consideram que as novas estruturas são determinadas por aspectos conversacionais. A verificação de hipóteses acerca da motivação para o surgimento de novas estruturas de negação beneficia-se da existência de registros de comunidades de fala que, por apresentarem um número reduzido de ocorrências de negações não canônicas, encontram-se em um estágio inicial de variação. Este trabalho procurar contribuir para a investigação da motivação para o surgimento de estruturas não canônicas de negação a partir da análise de dados encontrados em entrevistas sociolinguísticas realizadas no início da década de 90, no âmbito do Projeto VARSUL, com falantes das três capitais da Região Sul do Brasil. Partindo da consideração de hipóteses pragmáticas já apresentadas na literatura especializada, formula uma hipótese que procura explicar, com base nas análises realizadas, a função pragmática de enunciados com dupla negação no estágio inicial de uso. / In Brazilian Portuguese, there exist three different strategies of sentential negation, pre-verbal negation (Não quero bolo), double negation (Não quero bolo não) and post-verbal negation (Quero bolo não). In some languages these kind of variation in ways to express sentential negation leads to a change of the canonical strategies of negation, this change is known as Jespersen Cycle. Currently, besides Brazilian Portuguese, there are other languages that have alternative sentential negatives. One of the issues target for linguistic studies about variation in sentential negation is the motivation to the emergence of a new way to express sentential negation. Linguists have explained this motivation in two ways. Some authors have interpreted the appearance of new structures as a way to offset the phonetic weakening of the original negation. Others have considered that the new structures are determined by conversational aspects. The investigation of what motivates the origin of a new negative operator benefits from the existence of records of speech communities which are at an early stage of change. Data from VARSUL Project was found to be attested as representing dialects in the early stage of process of variation, due to a reduced number of occurrences of non-canonical negations found. The sociolinguistic interviews were made in mid-90s with interviewees from the three capitals cities of South Region of Brazil (Curitiba, Florianópolis and Porto Alegre). Using this data, the aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the investigation of the motivation for the emergence of non-canonical structures of sentential negation from the analysis of that data. In this dissertation is formulated a hypothesis that seeks to explain the pragmatic function of double negation in the beginning of process of variation, based on analyzes of that data. In order to develop the hypothesis of this work, it was taken in consideration pragmatics assumptions already presented in specialized linguistic literature.

A língua portuguesa falada no Brasil (PFB) apresenta uma variação na expressão da negação sentencial. Existem três estratégias: negação pré-verbal (Não quero bolo), dupla negação (Não quero bolo não) e negação pós-verbal (Quero bolo não). Fenômeno encontrado em várias línguas, a variação das estruturas de negação, em alguns casos, depois de um longo período, resulta em uma mudança nos padrões sentenciais, como ocorreu no francês e no inglês. Essa mudança dos padrões sentenciais de negação é chamada de Ciclo de Jespersen. Atualmente, além do português, outras línguas apresentam estruturas de negação sentencial alternativas que, embora apresentem na superfície mais de um operador negativo, são interpretadas como enunciados em que ocorre apenas uma operação de negação. Uma das questões focalizadas pelos estudos sobre a variação nas estruturas de negação sentencial nas línguas particulares, independentemente de se considerar que estejam passando pelo ciclo de Jespersen, é a que diz respeito à motivação para o surgimento de estratégias alternativas de negação. Na literatura, duas são as formas típicas de explicar o surgimento de negações não canônicas nas línguas. Certos autores tendem a interpretar o surgimento de novas estruturas negativas como uma forma de compensar o enfraquecimento fonético do operador de negação original. Outros consideram que as novas estruturas são determinadas por aspectos conversacionais. A verificação de hipóteses acerca da motivação para o surgimento de novas estruturas de negação beneficia-se da existência de registros de comunidades de fala que, por apresentarem um número reduzido de ocorrências de negações não canônicas, encontram-se em um estágio inicial de variação. Este trabalho procurar contribuir para a investigação da motivação para o surgimento de estruturas não canônicas de negação a partir da análise de dados encontrados em entrevistas sociolinguísticas realizadas no início da década de 90, no âmbito do Projeto VARSUL, com falantes das três capitais da Região Sul do Brasil. Partindo da consideração de hipóteses pragmáticas já apresentadas na literatura especializada, formula uma hipótese que procura explicar, com base nas análises realizadas, a função pragmática de enunciados com dupla negação no estágio inicial de uso. / In Brazilian Portuguese, there exist three different strategies of sentential negation, pre-verbal negation (Não quero bolo), double negation (Não quero bolo não) and post-verbal negation (Quero bolo não). In some languages these kind of variation in ways to express sentential negation leads to a change of the canonical strategies of negation, this change is known as Jespersen Cycle. Currently, besides Brazilian Portuguese, there are other languages that have alternative sentential negatives. One of the issues target for linguistic studies about variation in sentential negation is the motivation to the emergence of a new way to express sentential negation. Linguists have explained this motivation in two ways. Some authors have interpreted the appearance of new structures as a way to offset the phonetic weakening of the original negation. Others have considered that the new structures are determined by conversational aspects. The investigation of what motivates the origin of a new negative operator benefits from the existence of records of speech communities which are at an early stage of change. Data from VARSUL Project was found to be attested as representing dialects in the early stage of process of variation, due to a reduced number of occurrences of non-canonical negations found. The sociolinguistic interviews were made in mid-90s with interviewees from the three capitals cities of South Region of Brazil (Curitiba, Florianópolis and Porto Alegre). Using this data, the aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the investigation of the motivation for the emergence of non-canonical structures of sentential negation from the analysis of that data. In this dissertation is formulated a hypothesis that seeks to explain the pragmatic function of double negation in the beginning of process of variation, based on analyzes of that data. In order to develop the hypothesis of this work, it was taken in consideration pragmatics assumptions already presented in specialized linguistic literature.

A língua portuguesa falada no Brasil (PFB) apresenta uma variação na expressão da negação sentencial. Existem três estratégias: negação pré-verbal (Não quero bolo), dupla negação (Não quero bolo não) e negação pós-verbal (Quero bolo não). Fenômeno encontrado em várias línguas, a variação das estruturas de negação, em alguns casos, depois de um longo período, resulta em uma mudança nos padrões sentenciais, como ocorreu no francês e no inglês. Essa mudança dos padrões sentenciais de negação é chamada de Ciclo de Jespersen. Atualmente, além do português, outras línguas apresentam estruturas de negação sentencial alternativas que, embora apresentem na superfície mais de um operador negativo, são interpretadas como enunciados em que ocorre apenas uma operação de negação. Uma das questões focalizadas pelos estudos sobre a variação nas estruturas de negação sentencial nas línguas particulares, independentemente de se considerar que estejam passando pelo ciclo de Jespersen, é a que diz respeito à motivação para o surgimento de estratégias alternativas de negação. Na literatura, duas são as formas típicas de explicar o surgimento de negações não canônicas nas línguas. Certos autores tendem a interpretar o surgimento de novas estruturas negativas como uma forma de compensar o enfraquecimento fonético do operador de negação original. Outros consideram que as novas estruturas são determinadas por aspectos conversacionais. A verificação de hipóteses acerca da motivação para o surgimento de novas estruturas de negação beneficia-se da existência de registros de comunidades de fala que, por apresentarem um número reduzido de ocorrências de negações não canônicas, encontram-se em um estágio inicial de variação. Este trabalho procurar contribuir para a investigação da motivação para o surgimento de estruturas não canônicas de negação a partir da análise de dados encontrados em entrevistas sociolinguísticas realizadas no início da década de 90, no âmbito do Projeto VARSUL, com falantes das três capitais da Região Sul do Brasil. Partindo da consideração de hipóteses pragmáticas já apresentadas na literatura especializada, formula uma hipótese que procura explicar, com base nas análises realizadas, a função pragmática de enunciados com dupla negação no estágio inicial de uso. / In Brazilian Portuguese, there exist three different strategies of sentential negation, pre-verbal negation (Não quero bolo), double negation (Não quero bolo não) and post-verbal negation (Quero bolo não). In some languages these kind of variation in ways to express sentential negation leads to a change of the canonical strategies of negation, this change is known as Jespersen Cycle. Currently, besides Brazilian Portuguese, there are other languages that have alternative sentential negatives. One of the issues target for linguistic studies about variation in sentential negation is the motivation to the emergence of a new way to express sentential negation. Linguists have explained this motivation in two ways. Some authors have interpreted the appearance of new structures as a way to offset the phonetic weakening of the original negation. Others have considered that the new structures are determined by conversational aspects. The investigation of what motivates the origin of a new negative operator benefits from the existence of records of speech communities which are at an early stage of change. Data from VARSUL Project was found to be attested as representing dialects in the early stage of process of variation, due to a reduced number of occurrences of non-canonical negations found. The sociolinguistic interviews were made in mid-90s with interviewees from the three capitals cities of South Region of Brazil (Curitiba, Florianópolis and Porto Alegre). Using this data, the aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the investigation of the motivation for the emergence of non-canonical structures of sentential negation from the analysis of that data. In this dissertation is formulated a hypothesis that seeks to explain the pragmatic function of double negation in the beginning of process of variation, based on analyzes of that data. In order to develop the hypothesis of this work, it was taken in consideration pragmatics assumptions already presented in specialized linguistic literature.

The aim of the thesis is to study the negation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic variety. Iraqi Arabic variety has several different varieties because of the different ethnicities and religions in Iraq therefore the scope of the thesis has been limited to investigate just one type of Baghdad Arabic variety which is Muslim Baghdad Arabic (MBA). I used text analysis as a method in order to investigate the negation (system) in Muslim Baghdad Arabic variety. The material used was a book by McCarthy (1965) ‘Spoken Arabic of Baghdad, Anthology of text’. I also used Abu-Haidar’s article ‘Negation in Iraqi Arabic’ which is the most relevant work to my thesis as a starting point and for comparison with my discussion. The thesis has presented three different types of results. (i) There were some similar results that have been presented in both my thesis and the previous studies. (ii) There were some different results about some matters between my thesis and the previous studies. (iii) There were some new results in this thesis that have not been presented in any other studies.