Open AccessNegation-Licensed Commands
Author(s) -
Sabine Iatridou
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
linguistic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.61
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1530-9150
pISSN - 0024-3892
DOI - 10.1162/ling_a_00383
Subject(s) - negation , phenomenon , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , epistemology
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.
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