Neg-raising and positive polarity: The view from modals

Neg-raising and positive polarity: The view from modals

This article shows that the deontic modals <em>must</em>, <em>should</em> and <em>supposed to</em> are all Positive Polarity Items which can raise in order to avoid being in an anti-licensing environment; it also establishes that <em>should</em> has a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vincent Homer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2015-03-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
Subjects:
neg-raising
positive polarity
modals
Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/2788

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