Negation-Licensed Commands

• Sabine Iatridou ^[1]
  1. [1] MIT
• Localización: Linguistic inquiry, ISSN 0024-3892, Vol. 52, Nº 3, 2021, págs. 519-550
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The main goal of this article is to argue for the existence and crosslinguistic stability of a phenomenon that I call “negation-licensed commands” (NLCs), in which commands can be interpreted as such only in the presence of negation. The article explores morphosyntactic properties of NLCs in a small number of unrelated languages. It stops short of an analysis of the phenomenon, which will have to await future research.