Upper bounded and un-bounded ‘no more’

DOČEKAL, Mojmír. Upper bounded and un-bounded ‘no more’. In Eva Dekany. Acta Linguistica Academica. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2017, p. 213-231. ISSN 2559-8201. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2062.2017.64.2.3.

Basic information

• Original name: Upper bounded and un-bounded ‘no more’
• Authors: DOČEKAL, Mojmír (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Budapest, Acta Linguistica Academica, p. 213-231, 19 pp. 2017.
• Publisher: Akadémiai Kiadó

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: Hungary
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/17:00095309
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISSN: 2559-8201
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2062.2017.64.2.3
• UT WoS: 000407348500004
• Keywords in English: constituent negation; formal semantics; comparative; scalar implicatures
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Constituent negation (CN) is commonly thought to be a subtype of natural language negation which does not exhibit substantial differences from the more frequent verbal negation. In this paper, I argue that at least Czech CN is different. I argue that its semantics targets both at-issue meaning and focus alternatives. The evidence will come from differences in interpretations between English and Czech with respect to negated comparatives adjoined to NPs (like no more than two people) and from many other types of negated constituents. I argue that the cross-linguistic variation can be explained if Slavic CN is treated as a focus-oriented particle, unlike English no which targets scalar alternatives.

Links

• GA17-16111S, research and development project: Name: Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích

Investor: Czech Science Foundation