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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027311.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262323840
An extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items. In this book, Chris Collins and Paul Postal consider examples such the one below on the interpretation where Nancy thinks that this course is not interesting: Nancy doesn't think this course is interesting . They argue such examples instantiate a kind of syntactic raising that they term Classical NEG Raising. This involves the raising of a NEG (negation) from the embedded clause to the matrix clause. Collins and Postal develop three main arguments to support their claim. First, they show that Classical NEG Raising obeys island constraints. Second, they document that a syntactic raising analysis predicts both the grammaticality and particular properties of what they term Horn clauses (named for Laurence Horn, who discovered them). Finally, they argue that the properties of certain parenthetical structures strongly support the syntactic character of Classical NEG Raising. Collins and Postal also offer a detailed analysis of the main argument in the literature against a syntactic raising analysis (which they call the Composed Quantifier Argument). They show that the facts appealed to in this argument not only fail to conflict with their approach but actually support a syntactic view. In the course of their argument, Collins and Postal touch on a variety of related topics, including the syntax of negative polarity items, the status of sequential negation, and the scope of negative quantifiers.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0020
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0022
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0023
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0024
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0025
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0026
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0027
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0028
EISBN: 9780262323840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 May 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9704.003.0029
EISBN: 9780262323840