Classical NEG raising : an essay on the syntax of negation /
Collins, Chris,1963-
Postal, Paul Martin,1936-
This title provides an extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items.
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Contents; Series Foreword; Foreword: Classical NEG Raising: The First 900 Years; Preface; Acknowledgments; I Background; 1 Introduction; 2 The Syntactic Representation of Scope; 3 NEG Raising; 4 Reversals; 5 NEG Raising from Scope Positions; 6 Polyadic Quantification; 7 NEG Deletion: Case Studies; 8 Elements of a General Conception of NEG Deletion; 9 Confounding Cases: Strict NPIs and Scope; 10 Strict NPIs and Locality; II Arguments; 11 Islands: Preliminaries; 12 Islands: Survey; 13 Horn Clauses: Preliminaries; 14 Horn Clauses: Negative Inversion; 15 Topicalization
16 The Composed Quantifier Argument17 Parentheticals; 18 Never Raising; 19 Nonfinite Clauses; 20 Conclusion; Notes; References; Name Index; Subject Index; Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This title provides an extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items.
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Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general
Semantics.
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General