Negation, Polarity, and Deontic Modals

Universal deontic modals may vary with respect to whether they scope over or under negation. For instance, English modals like must and should take wide scope with respect to negation; modals like have to and need to take narrow scope. Similar patterns have been attested in other languages. In this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Iatridou, Sabine, Zeijlstra, Hedde
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83897