Negative indefinites

Negative indefinites / Doris Penka.

Doris Penka delivers a unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites - as in the expressions nobody, nothing, never and nowhere - and their counterparts in other languages. Contrary to standard assumptions, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Penka, Doris
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 32.
Subjects:
Definiteness (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Determiners.
Semantics.
semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Determiners
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives
Semantics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Negative indefinites
  • Sentential negation
  • Definition of sentential negation
  • The position of sentential negation
  • Outline of the book
  • Negative concord
  • The phenomenon of negative concord
  • First data
  • Strict and non-strict negative concord
  • Approaches to negative concord
  • Negative indefinites as negative polarity items
  • Negative indefinites as negative quantifiers
  • Negative indefinites as being ambiguous between negative quantifiers and NPIs
  • Negative concord as syntactic agreement
  • The approach of Zeijlstra (2004)
  • Negative indefinites not associating with sentential negation
  • Negative concord in French
  • Summary
  • Split Scope of NIs in German
  • Data
  • Modal and other restructuring verbs
  • Transitive intensional verbs
  • Predicative uses
  • Topic-focus accent
  • Idiomatic expressions
  • Further data
  • Conclusion from the data
  • Analysis of negative indefinites in German
  • Scope splitting with respect to verbs
  • Scope splitting under topic-focus accent
  • Negative indefinites in sentence-initial position
  • Negative indefinites in sentence-initial position
  • Comparison with other accounts
  • Amalgamation and incorporation
  • Quantification over abstract individuals
  • Quantification over higher types
  • Summary
  • Scope Splitting with Other Downward-Entailing Quantifiers
  • Background
  • Only
  • Fewer/less than
  • Few/little
  • At most
  • Summary
  • Distributional restrictions in Scandinavian
  • The distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian
  • Analysis of negative indefinites in Scandinavian
  • Comparison with other accounts
  • Cross-linguistic perspective on negative indefinites in double negation languages
  • The Nature of the Licensing Relation
  • LF movement of negative indefinites
  • Unselective binding
  • Association with operators in a Hamblin semantics
  • Distribution of indefinites in negative contexts
  • Tests for the Quantificational Force of Negative Indefinites
  • Background
  • Modification by exceptive constructions
  • Modification by almost
  • Previous analyses of almost
  • Almost as an operator evaluating scalar alternatives
  • Negative indefinites modified by almost
  • Incompatibility of almost and NPIs
  • Remarks on the syntax of almost
  • Summary.

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