Negative indefinites /
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| Author / Creator: | Penka, Doris. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. |
| Description: | xii, 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 32 Oxford linguistics Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 32. [Oxford linguistics]. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8204601 |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Negative indefinites
- 1.2. Sentential negation
- 1.2.1. Definition of sentential negation
- 1.2.2. The position of sentential negation
- 1.3. Outline of the book
- 2. Negative Concord
- 2.1. The phenomenon of negative concord
- 2.1.1. First data
- 2.1.2. Strict and non-strict negative concord
- 2.2. Approaches to negative concord
- 2.2.1. Negative indefinites as negative polarity items
- 2.2.2. Negative indefinites as negative quantifiers
- 2.2.3. Negative indefinites as being ambiguous between negative quantifiers and NPIs
- 2.3. Negative concord as syntactic agreement
- 2.3.1. The approach of Zeijlstra (2004)
- 2.3.2. Negative indefinites not associating with sentential negation
- 2.3.3. Negative concord in French
- 2.4. Summary
- 3. Split Scope of NIs in German.
- 3.1. Data
- 3.1.1. Modal and other restructuring verbs
- 3.1.2. Transitive intensional verbs
- 3.1.3. Predicative uses
- 3.1.4. Topic-focus accent
- 3.1.5. Idiomatic expressions
- 3.1.6. Further data
- 3.1.7. Conclusion from the data
- 3.2. Analysis of negative indefinites in German
- 3.2.1. Scope splitting with respect to verbs
- 3.2.2. Scope splitting under topic-focus accent
- 3.2.3. Negative indefinites in sentence-initial position
- 3.2.4. Negative indefinites in sentence-initial position
- 3.3. Comparison with other accounts
- 3.3.1. Amalgamation and incorporation
- 3.3.2. Quantification over abstract individuals
- 3.3.3. Quantification over higher types
- 3.4. Summary
- 4. Scope Splitting with Other Downward-Entailing Quantifiers
- 4.1. Background
- 4.2. Only
- 4.3. Fewer/less than
- 4.4. Few/little
- 4.5. At most
- 4.6. Summary
- 5. Distributional Restrictions in Scandinavian.
- 5.1. The distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian
- 5.2. Analysis of negative indefinites in Scandinavian
- 5.3. Comparison with other accounts
- 5.4. Cross-linguistic perspective on negative indefinites in double negation languages
- 6. The Nature of the Licensing Relation
- 6.1. LF movement of negative indefinites
- 6.2. Unselective binding
- 6.3. Association with operators in a Hamblin semantics
- 6.4. Distribution of indefinites in negative contexts
- 7. Tests for the Quantificational Force of Negative Indefinites
- 7.1. Background
- 7.2. Modification by exceptive constructions
- 7.3. Modification by almost
- 7.3.1. Previous analyses of almost
- 7.3.2. Almost as an operator evaluating scalar alternatives
- 7.3.3. Negative indefinites modified by almost
- 7.3.4. Incompatibility of almost and NPIs
- 7.3.5. Remarks on the syntax of almost
- 7.4. Summary
- 8. Summary.
