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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| author | Iatridou, Sabine |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy |
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| description | <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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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1336982023-09-14T19:44:48Z Negation-Licensed Commands Iatridou, Sabine Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy <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> 2021-10-27T19:54:11Z 2021-10-27T19:54:11Z 2021 2021-03-22T15:35:57Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133698 en 10.1162/LING_A_00383 Linguistic Inquiry Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Press - Journals MIT Press |
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| title | Negation-Licensed Commands |
| title_full | Negation-Licensed Commands |
| title_fullStr | Negation-Licensed Commands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Negation-Licensed Commands |
| title_short | Negation-Licensed Commands |
| title_sort | negation licensed commands |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133698 |
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