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NEG Raising and Serbo-Croatian NPIs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2017

Chris Collins  and
Paul M. Postal
Chris Collins*
Affiliation:
New York University
Paul M. Postal
Affiliation:
New York University
*
cc116@nyu.edu
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Abstract

Collins and Postal (2014) postulate that English NPIs represent two distinct structures: a unary NEG structure and a binary NEG structure. Some NPIs, such as any and ever expressions, can instantiate either of these two structures in different contexts. Others (such as one use of jackshit) have only unary NEG structures. The present article seeks to provide cross-linguistic support for this hypothesis by showing that the two series of NPIs in Serbian/Croatian (Progovac 1994) should be analyzed in terms of the two structure types postulated for English NPIs.

Résumé

Collins et Postal (2014) proposent que les éléments de polarité négative en anglais résultent de deux structures distinctes: une structure de négation unaire, et une structure de négation binaire. Certains de ces éléments, tels que any et ever, peuvent instancier l'une ou l'autre des deux structures, tandis que d'autres, comme par exemple un des usages de jackshit, n'ont que la structure de négation unaire. Le présent article cherche à fournir des preuves interlinguistiques pour cette hypothèse en montrant qu'en serbe/croate (Progovac 1994), les deux séries d’éléments de polarité négative doivent être analysées en fonction des deux types de structure postulés pour l'anglais.

Keywords

Negative Polarity ItemsNEG deletionNEG raisingresumptive negationHorn clausesÉléments de polarité négativesuppression de NEGsoulèvement de NEGnégation résomptivepropositions Horn
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , September 2017 , pp. 339 - 370
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© Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique 2017 

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