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While negative indefinites are standardly assumed to be semantically negative quantifiers, this work argues for a different analysis. It is motivated by three phenomena, which negative indefinites give rise to in different languages and which are unexpected under the negative quantifier analysis.
In Negative indefinites Doris Penka focuses on three topics in the syntax and semantics of negation: negative concord, the split-scope readings of negative quantifiers in German, and the restricted distribution of quantifiers in Scandinavian. P argues that in each instance what looks like a negative quantifier is really an indefinite whose apparent negative force derives from a separate— at ...

While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation. In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the ...

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