Against stativizing negation, expletive negation and NPI- until

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ID19494753
AuthorsJonathan E Macdonald (0009-0001-8878-8554), Jonathan Macdonald (0000-0003-0249-107X), Barbara Ürögdi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Year2011
Volume58
Issue3
Pages203-220
Publication date2011-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Linguistica Hungarica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1216-8076 • E-ISSN: 1588-2624
PublisherAkademiai Kiado Zrt. (PUBLISHER • HU)
DOI10.1556/aling.58.2011.3.1
OpenAlexW2044206127
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

We present a novel account of phenomena that have been discussed under the labels stativizing negation, expletive negation and the licensing of NPI-(eventive-)until. We argue that these concepts are theoretically undesirable as well as descriptively inadequate because (a) negation does not affect event structure, (b) “eventive” until outscopes negation and can also occur without negation, so it cannot be treated as an NPI, and (c) the properties ascribed to negation and/or until are observed in a wide variety of contexts and should therefore receive a more general, non-lexical analysis. Our account derives the facts from the idea that until- and for-duratives are referential items that scope in the topic field and can receive a contrastive interpretation on analogy with regular topics. This gives us a handle on the socalled “actualization” observed with negated eventives in the scope of a durative, previously handled by lexical duplication of until and by stipulation of idiosyncratic lexical properties

Analogy · Event structure · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Negation · Physics · Programming language · Stipulation · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence

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