On the scopal interaction of negation and deontic modals

Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • M. Aloni
  • H. Bastiaanse
  • T. de Jager
  • K. Schulz
Book title Logic, Language and Meaning
Book subtitle 17th Amsterdam Colloquium : Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009 : revised selected papers
ISBN
  • 9783642142864
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783642142871
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event Logic, language and meaning: 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pages (from-to) 315-324
Publisher Berlin: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract In this paper we argue that the different scopal relations that deontic modal auxiliaries cross-linguistically exhibit can be explained by assuming that (i) polarity effects arise in the domain of universal deontic modals and therefore not in the domain of existential deontic modals; and (ii) that all deontic modals must be interpreted VP in situ if their polarity requirements allow for that.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_32
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