Negation-Licensed Commands
<jats:p>The main goal of this article is to argue for the existence and crosslinguistic stability of a phenomenon that I call “negation-licensed commands” (NLCs), in which commands can be interpreted as such only in the presence of negation. The article explores morphosyntactic properties of N...
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Language: | English |
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MIT Press - Journals
2021
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133698 |
Summary: | <jats:p>The main goal of this article is to argue for the existence and crosslinguistic stability of a phenomenon that I call “negation-licensed commands” (NLCs), in which commands can be interpreted as such only in the presence of negation. The article explores morphosyntactic properties of NLCs in a small number of unrelated languages. It stops short of an analysis of the phenomenon, which will have to await future research.</jats:p> |
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