Negation, intensionality, and aspect: Interaction with NP semantics (original) (raw)
2008, Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, ed. Susan Rothstein
This paper addresses the interaction of meanings of noun phrases (NPs) and operators, focusing on negation, intensionality, and aspect. In interaction with NPs, negation and intensional operators sometimes pattern alike, sometimes differently, and the question is why. The distribution of genitive case and subjunctive mood in Russian form the empirical core of the paper. I argue that no single common property such as non-veridicality (Giannakidou) directly licenses genitive or subjunctive, but that negative sentences may ...
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