Negative DPs, A-Movement, and Scope Diminishment

Lasnik (1999) has claimed that NegDPs in derived subject position cannot be interpreted in the embedded clause and do not undergo A-chain reconstruction. We show that with a well-defined set of predicates, including deontic modals and raising predicates, scope diminishment of NegDP is observed. We a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Iatridou, Sabine, Sichel, Ivy
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71143