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-

Contributor:

Postal, Paul Martin, 1936-

Series:

Linguistic inquiry monographs.

Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Negatives.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-32384-2

OCLC:

880755760