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Surface Structure Constraints on Negative Polarity and Word Order in Hindi and English (1999)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Vasishth, Shravan |
| Description | In 302 SENTENTIAL NEGATION AND NEGATIVE CONCORD Logic, Language and Information (ESSLI’99 Hindi negative polarity items (NPIs), unlike English NPIs, can occur in subject position, outside the scope of negation at s-structure. I present an analysis for this phenomenon set in categorial grammar, where licensing occurs at s-structure in both English and Hindi. This treatment has the following advantages: it is monostratal and strictly lexical; NPI licensing is driven by monotonicity marking on licensors and NPIs rather than c-command, which extends the empiricial coverage of our analysis to NPI licensors which don't have any overt negation present in them; and the correct semantics is built up compositionally due to the Curry-Howard correspondence. |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1999-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Npi Licensors English Npis Hindi Negative Polarity Item Empiricial Coverage Surface Structure Constraint Overt Negation Present Negative Polarity Categorial Grammar Correct Semantics Following Advantage Npi Licensing Word Order Curry-howard Correspondence Subject Position |
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| Resource Type | Article |