Negation-Licensed Commands

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Iatridou, Sabine
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Abstract
<jats:p>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.</jats:p>
Date issued
2021
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133698
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Journal
Linguistic Inquiry
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MIT Press - Journals
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