When is not-believing believing that not?

DOČEKAL, Mojmír and Jakub DOTLAČIL. When is not-believing believing that not?. Online. In Robert Truswell, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern, and Hannah Rohde. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 2018, p. 387-399.

Basic information

• Original name: When is not-believing believing that not?
• Authors: DOČEKAL, Mojmír and Jakub DOTLAČIL.
• Edition: Edinburgh, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, p. 387-399, 13 pp. 2018.
• Publisher: University of Edinburgh

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 60201 General language studies
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: electronic version available online
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: formal semantics; Neg-raising; Czech; experimental semantics

Abstract

We present two experiments that studied the licensing conditions of two Czech expressions in neg-raising and non-neg-raising environments: ani jeden ‘even one’ and az do ‘until’. English counterparts of these expressions are often treated as belonging to the same class, that of strict NPIs. However, our experiments revealed subtle differences between the two expressions, which we argue could be explained if we assume that only ani jeden ‘even one’ is a strict NPI, while a az do ‘until’ is an expression sensitive to durativity of the predicate it modifies. The experiments furthermore showed that mood affects licensing of both ani jeden ‘even one’ and a az do ‘until’ under neg-raising predicates.

Links

• MUNI/A/0791/2017, interní kód MU: Name: Podpora výzkumu studentů na MU - obecná jazykovědy a baltistika 2018

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A