TY - JOUR
T1 - On Sentential Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in English and Japanese
T2 - A Minimalist Approach
AU - Nishioka, Nobuaki
PY - 1999/1/1
Y1 - 1999/1/1
N2 - This paper is concerned with the syntax of negative sentences and negative polarity items (NPIs) in English and Japanese and argues for the validity of a feature-checking analysis in the framework of Chomsky (1995). It is demonstrated that the feature-checking analysis based on feature specification on Neg and NPIs can present a unified view of negative sentences and that different distributions of NPIs naturally follow from it. At the same time, it is argued that negative sentences suggest a locality condition supplementary to the Minimal Link Condition in Chomsky (1995), in support of Manzini (1998). This locality condition is incorporated into the analysis as the NEG-Convention.∗.
AB - This paper is concerned with the syntax of negative sentences and negative polarity items (NPIs) in English and Japanese and argues for the validity of a feature-checking analysis in the framework of Chomsky (1995). It is demonstrated that the feature-checking analysis based on feature specification on Neg and NPIs can present a unified view of negative sentences and that different distributions of NPIs naturally follow from it. At the same time, it is argued that negative sentences suggest a locality condition supplementary to the Minimal Link Condition in Chomsky (1995), in support of Manzini (1998). This locality condition is incorporated into the analysis as the NEG-Convention.∗.
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U2 - 10.9793/elsj1984.16.25
DO - 10.9793/elsj1984.16.25
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85024750074
VL - 16
SP - 25
EP - 54
JO - English Linguistics / Journal of the English Linguistic Society of Japan
JF - English Linguistics / Journal of the English Linguistic Society of Japan
SN - 0918-3701
IS - 1
ER -