On the Locus of the Interpretable Negative Feature in a Negative Sentence
- Title
- On the Locus of the Interpretable Negative Feature in a Negative Sentence
- Author
- 정대호
- Keywords
- short answer; polarity reversal; negative neutralization; ellipsis; semantic isomorphic condition; interpretable negative feature; higher/lower sigma (Σ)
- Issue Date
- 2014-08
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, v. 50, NO. 2, Page. 461-486
- Abstract
- Kramer and Rawlins (K & R 2009) analyze short answers yes and noto a polar question as sentence fragments involving TP ellipsis alongthe similar lines of Merchant’s (2001, 2004) treatment of short answersto a content question. Their TP ellipsis analysis was mainly groundedon the following two factual claims in (i) and (ii) and the theoreticalassumption in (iii): (i) Short answers to an outer negative question carrythe same meaning as short answers to an affirmative question; (ii)Short answers yes and no to an inner negative question are neutralizedas a negative meaning, which K & R (2009) dub as negative neutralization;and (iii) the interpretable negative feature of a negative sentencemay reside in the higher or lower Σ. This paper, however, refutes thefactual claim in (ii) (negative neutralization) and the theoretical assumptionin (iii). It is shown that (ii) is not (at least not always) empiricallysupported, when corpus data is considered, and that (iii) facesnon-trivial theoretical problems. This paper instead proposes that theinterpretable negative feature resides in the higher Σ, treating an overt orcovert negation morpheme in the lower Σ as pleonastic. The proposedhigher negative theory draws further support from the scope wideningeffects of negation and polarity reversals displayed in NPI/N-wordfragmental answers to a content question.
- URI
- https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE02468998https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/184476
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
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- COLLEGE OF LANGUAGES & CULTURES[E](국제문화대학) > ENGLISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE(영미언어·문화학과) > Articles
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