NPI Licensing in Adjunct WH-Questions

Han, Chung–hye; Siegel, Laura

doi:10.3765/bls.v22i1.1339

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1996

DOI: 10.3765/bls.v22i1.1339

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NPI Licensing in Adjunct WH-Questions

Chung–hye Han¹,

Laura Siegel²

Abstract: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)

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<p>While how-questions typically elicit information about manner or instrument, English how‑questions have an additional, largely unnoticed interpretation: they can be used (often rhetorically) to express surprise that the proposition under ‘how’ holds at all (How is Chili's still open?) While these ‘propositional how-questions’ freely allow negation, they do not allow neg-contraction (?*How isn't Chili's open yet?). I propose that Neg-to-C raising is blocked because it would enable Neg to (undesirably) scope over a covert VERUM operator in C that contributes to the 'surprise at the true-status of p' reading.</p>

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NPI Licensing in Adjunct WH-Questions

Abstract: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)

Cited by 1 publication

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How is contraction not possible here?

How is contraction not possible here?

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