Open AccessThe role of scale structure in the interpretation of contrariety in no-DPs
Author(s) -
Rachel Szekely
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
proceedings of the linguistic society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2473-8689
DOI - 10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4043
Subject(s) - negation , predicate (mathematical logic) , sentence , linguistics , meaning (existential) , interpretation (philosophy) , natural language processing , mathematics , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , programming language
Contrary meaning is commonly analyzed as a pragmatic strengthening of contradictory sentence negation. This paper derives the contrary meaning found in no-DPs in predicate position (e.g. "John is no fool") through the analysis of no as negation that operates on the scale contributed by the predicate nominal expression.