The Problem of the Negated Imperative in Perfective Verbs Revisited

Bogusławski, Andrzej

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“…The explanation given by Bogusławski (1985) for the restriction on perfective aspect in prohibitives is actually an instance of the emphatic negation argument. This supports the view of the imperfective aspect as a NPI.…”

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“…Using this terminology, the perfective can only be used in preventives, but not in prohibitives. Bogusławski (1985) gives an explanation for the preference for imperfectives in negated imperatives. His discussion applies to verbs denoting change of state and activity leading to the change of state (accomplishments and achievements that can have an associated activity).…”

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“…The imperfective aspect marking shows sensitivity to some NPI-licensing environments. The diachronical explanations given by Kuryłowicz (1971) for the partitive of negation and by Bogusławski (1985) to the restriction of perfective in negative imperatives are both examples of the emphatic negation argument, which is used to explain regular emphatic NPIs.…”

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Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology

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2006

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Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology

Levinson

2006

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“…Negation with partitive direct object is stronger than with accusative. The explanation given by Bogusławski (1985) for negated imperatives and the first stage of Kuryłowicz's (1971) explanation for the genitive of negation have the same structure." (p.16).…”

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“…Levinson argues that the explanation offered in Bogusławski (1985) of the restriction to imperfective aspect in negated imperatives expressing intentional action is parallel to Kuryłowicz's explanation for Gen Neg. Bogusławski's explanation applies most straightforwardly to accomplishment verbs, for which imperfective verbs denote activities that are not necessarily completed, while corresponding perfective verbs entail completion.…”

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9. Negation, intensionality, and aspect: Interaction with NP semantics

Partee

2008

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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The puzzle of the relation between negation and intensionalityThis paper is about the interaction of the meanings of Noun Phrases (NPs) and various operator-like elements that a sentence may contain: negation, intensional verbs (want, expect, hope for, seek), tenses, modal verbs, aspectual operators, and other elements. I focus mainly on negation and intensionality, with discussion of aspect-related problems at the end 1 .The patterns of interaction of NPs and various operator-like elements sometimes show negation and intensional operators patterning alike, sometimes differently. Negation is not an intensional operator; so the question arises why it sometimes, but not always, patterns with the intensional operators.In Section 2, we review (briefly and superficially) some of the basics of NP interpretations, the semantics of the relevant operator-like elements, and their interaction. Then we look at how some natural languages encode certain relations between NPs and certain operators, giving us a window on some aspects of the "logic of natural language". There we find a puzzle in the Russian "genitive of negation" construction, which seems to lump negation and some intensional verbs together (Section 3); this puzzle forms the empirical core of the paper. In Section 4 we work our way through some hypotheses about what is going on, concentrating on the interactions among scope, NP interpretation, and the semantic properties of negation and intensional operators. Section 5 adds aspect to the picture, drawing especially on recent works by Paul Kiparsky and by Dmitry Levinson. In Section 5.1 I discuss Kiparsky's study (Kiparsky 1998) of parallels between partitive case in Finnish and imperfective aspect in Russian, and explore the possibility that Finnish partitive, Russian imperfective, and Russian Genitive have semantic similarities that may be described in terms of 'decreased referentiality'. In Section 5.2 I adapt some arguments from Dmitry Levinson's work on a slightly different kind of parallel between imperfectivity and genitive case under negation, to further support the idea of similarity between NPI contexts and intensional contexts. In the concluding section I opt for a view of "family resemblance" properties that many but not all instances of negation and intensionality share, so as to allow for equally important differences that show up among the family members (Section 6).

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The Interaction of Case with Aspect and Number

Kagan

2012

Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian

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The Problem of the Negated Imperative in Perfective Verbs Revisited

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Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology

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