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Negation and Time: Against Expletive Negation in Temporal Clauses.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Negation and Time: Against Expletive Negation in Temporal Clauses./
作者:	Cepeda, Paola.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
面頁冊數:	229 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-10A.
標題:	Linguistics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13423006
ISBN:	9781392062593

Negation and Time: Against Expletive Negation in Temporal Clauses.
Cepeda, Paola.

Negation and Time: Against Expletive Negation in Temporal Clauses. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 229 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

It has been widely assumed that some negative expressions do not carry negative content and therefore do not contribute to sentence meaning. For example, the English sentence "I missed not seeing you last summer" has a very straightforward meaning where what I missed was "seeing you last summer", and not "not seeing you". The presence of the negative expression "not" seems to play no role and is considered at most optional if not incorrect. Such vacuous negative expressions have been labeled "expletive negation" and have been accounted form in terms of agreement or expressive emphasis. These accounts embody what I call the "expletive approach," which is widely adopted in the literature. I argue against the expletive approach. I show that, in all natural languages, negative expressions contribute a contentful negation when interacting with time expressions. In support of this claim, I look in particular at the occurrence of purported expletive negations in temporal clauses involving the cross-linguistic counterparts of "until", "before" and "since". I offer a unified account of the distribution of the so-called expletive negation in temporal clauses (with special focus on Spanish, French and Korean), and I demonstrate that these negative expressions are not semantically empty. Although "until"-, "before"- and "since"-clauses differ in their semantics, the three types of temporal clauses share the property of allowing temporal overlap between the eventuality described in the matrix clause and the time interval denoted by the temporal clause. However, when the so-called expletive negation occurs in the temporal clause, overlap is excluded. Thus, without negation, the main clause eventuality can occur within the interval denoted by the temporal clause. But, in the presence of negation, the eventuality can only occur at some time in the complement of this interval. An experimental study for "until"-clauses in Spanish shows that the illusion of expletiveness arises from specific aspectual properties associated with the temporal clause. Viewed in the broader context, the semantic properties of sentences with and without "expletive" negation are clearly different.

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Linguistics.

Negation and Time: Against Expletive Negation in Temporal Clauses.
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