Negative Indefinites Kansas Written for a broad audience

Written for a broad audience

EAN: 9781264286096

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Negative Indefinites Kansas Written for a broad audienceIn this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation. In an