scholarly journals Negative Features on Negative Indefinites: Evidence from Split Scope

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Penka
Keyword(s):  
Split Scope ◽  
Negative Indefinites

Split Scope of Negative Indefinites

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 517-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Penka
Keyword(s):  
Split Scope ◽  
Negative Indefinites

Negative Quantifiers

2020 ◽  
pp. 425-440
Author(s):  
Hedde Zeijlstra
Keyword(s):  
Prima Facie ◽  
High Scale ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Quantifiers ◽  
Split Scope ◽  
Universal Quantifiers ◽  
Negative Indefinites

This chapter discusses two puzzling phenomena in the domain of negative quantifiers: the so-called nall-problem and the existence of split-scope readings triggered by negative indefinites. The nall-problem concerns the fact that no language in the world lexicalizes negated universal quantifiers (with the meaning ‘not every’) and other negated high-scale elements. Negative Indefinites in languages such as Dutch and German may give rise to so-called split scope readings. Sentences like German Du must keine Krawatte anziehen (‘you must wear no tie’) have a reading where the modal takes scope in between the negation and the indefinite. That suggests that prima facie negative indefinites are not negative quantifiers in a straightforward sense. This chapter briefly discusses and evaluates the main analyses that have been put forward to account for these puzzles.

Negative indefinites

2006 ◽  
pp. 305-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan van der Auwera ◽  
Ludovic De Cuypere ◽  
Annemie Neuckermans
Keyword(s):  
Negative Indefinites
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