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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| author | Iatridou, Sabine Zeijlstra, Hedde |
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| description | 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 article, we argue that the scopal properties of modals with respect to negation can be understood if (a) modals that outscope negation are positive polarity items (PPIs); (b) all modals originate in a position lower than I[superscript 0]; and (c) modals undergo reconstruction unless reconstruction leads to a PPI-licensing violation. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/838972022-09-27T17:46:13Z Negation, Polarity, and Deontic Modals Iatridou, Sabine Zeijlstra, Hedde Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Iatridou, Sabine 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 article, we argue that the scopal properties of modals with respect to negation can be understood if (a) modals that outscope negation are positive polarity items (PPIs); (b) all modals originate in a position lower than I[superscript 0]; and (c) modals undergo reconstruction unless reconstruction leads to a PPI-licensing violation. 2014-01-13T16:48:38Z 2014-01-13T16:48:38Z 2013-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0024-3892 1530-9150 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83897 Iatridou, Sabine, and Hedde Zeijlstra. “Negation, Polarity, and Deontic Modals.” Linguistic Inquiry 44, no. 4 (October 2013): 529-568. © 2013 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00138 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 MIT Press |
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