N-words and sentential negation: Evidence from polarity particles and VP ellipsis

N-words and sentential negation: Evidence from polarity particles and VP ellipsis. Brasoveanu, A., Farkas, D. F, & Roelofsen, F. Semantics and Pragmatics, 6(7):1–33, 2013.

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A prominent treatment of n-words such as nobody and never is as indefinite expressions occurring in the scope of a covert sentential negation operator. This paper presents three experiments using two novel strategies based on polarity particles and VP ellipsis to test the predictions of this treatment of n-words. The first experiment tests a particular prediction of recent accounts of polarity particles with respect to agreeing responses to negative assertions. The other two extend the inquiry to cases involving n-words.

@article{Brasoveanu:13,
	abstract = {A prominent treatment of n-words such as nobody and never is as indefinite expressions occurring in the scope of a covert sentential negation operator. This paper presents three experiments using two novel strategies based on polarity particles and VP ellipsis to test the predictions of this treatment of n-words. The first experiment tests a particular prediction of recent accounts of polarity particles with respect to agreeing responses to negative assertions. The other two extend the inquiry to cases involving n-words.
},
	author = {Brasoveanu, Adrian and Farkas, Donka F and Roelofsen, Floris},
	date-modified = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
	doi = {10.3765/sp.6.7},
	journal = {Semantics and Pragmatics},
	keywords = {theoretical linguistics,negation,ellipsis,answer particles,indefinites,experimental linguistics},
	mendeley-tags = {inquisitive semantics,theoretical linguistics},
	number = {7},
	pages = {1--33},
	title = {{N-words and sentential negation: Evidence from polarity particles and {VP} ellipsis}},
	url = {http://semprag.org/article/view/sp.6.7},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2013},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://semprag.org/article/view/sp.6.7},
	Bdsk-Url-2 = {https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.6.7}}

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