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Expletive negation and the decomposition of only

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Margulis, Daniel,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Martin Hackl.
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Abstract
This thesis is focused on the seemingly superfluous sentential negation showing up in Hebrew until-clauses. I discuss a scalar implicature arising from until-clauses which surprisingly becomes uncancellable when this negation is present. I argue that this inference becomes obligatory due to the presence of an only-like exhaustivity operator, which gets (partially) spelled out as negation since it is composed of negation and an exceptive. Moreover, this negation is shown to share more properties with only.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2019
 
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-37).
 
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2019
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124087
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Linguistics and Philosophy.

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