N-words and sentential negation: Evidence from polarity particles and VP ellipsis

N-words and sentential negation: Evidence from polarity particles and VP ellipsis

A prominent treatment of <em>n</em>-words such as <em>nobody</em> and <em>never</em> is as indefinite expressions occurring in the scope of a covert sentential negation operator. This paper presents three experiments using two novel strategies based on polarity pa...

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Main Authors: Adrian Brasoveanu, Donka Farkas, Floris Roelofsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2013-08-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
Subjects:
n-words
negation
polarity particles
VP ellipsis
Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/2792

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http://semprag.org/article/view/2792

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