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Classical NEG raising : an essay on the syntax of negation / Chris Collins and Paul M. Postal ; foreword by Laurence R. Horn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Chris, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Linguistic inquiry monographs
- Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Negatives.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This title provides an extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items.
- Contents:
- I Background 1
- 1 Introduction 3
- 2 The Syntactic Representation of Scope 13
- 3 NEG Raising 17
- 4 Reversals 29
- 5 NEG Raising from Scope Positions 45
- 6 Polyadic Quantification 49
- 7 NEG Deletion: Case Studies 59
- 8 Elements of a General Conception of NEG Deletion 69
- 9 Confounding Cases: Strict NPIs and Scope 79
- 10 Strict NPIs and Locality 93
- II Arguments 101
- 11 Islands: Preliminaries 103
- 12 Islands: Survey 111
- 13 Horn Clauses: Preliminaries 125
- 14 Horn Clauses: Negative Inversion 133
- 15 Topicalization 157
- 16 The Composed Quantifier Argument 163
- 17 Parentheticals 191
- 18 Never Raising 205
- 19 Nonfinite Clauses 211
- 20 Conclusion 217.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262323840
- 0262323842
- OCLC:
- 880755760
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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