NEG Raising and Serbo-Croatian NPIs

Chris Collins; Paul M. Postal

doi:10.1017/cnj.2017.2

NEG Raising and Serbo-Croatian NPIs

Chris Collins, Paul M. Postal

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	339-370
Number of pages	32
Journal	Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Volume	62
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2017.2
State	Published - Sep 1 2017

Keywords

Horn clauses
NEG deletion
NEG raising
Negative Polarity Items
resumptive negation

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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