The Role of Focus in the Licensing and Interpretation of Negative Polarity Items

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword v
3. Table of contents vii
4. The Syntax of French Negative Adverbs 1
5. The Syntax of Sentential Negation in French and English 29
6. A Non-Unified Analysis of Negative Concord 53
7. Non-Negative Negation and Wh-Exclamatives 75
8. Long-Distance Licensing of Negative Indefinites 95
9. The Syntax of N-Words and the Neg Criterion 115
10. Negation and Negative Concord in Middle Dutch 139
11. Negative Polarity and the Dynamics of Vertical Inference 157
12. Negation as a Reflex of Clause Structure 183
13. The Scalar Model of Polarity Sensitivity 209
14. La négation comme expression procédurale 231
15. De partitif et la négation 251
16. Negation and Indefinites in Maori 271
17. Extending the Notion of Negative Concord 289
18. The Role of Focus in the Licensing and Interpretation of Negative Polarity Items 311
19. Jespersen, Negative Concord and A'-Binding 323
20. Neg-Movement and Wh-Movement 341
21. Index of Authors 357
22. Index of Terms & Concepts 360
23. Index of Languages & Language Families 366