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This course is concerned with Negative Polarity Items. While raising familiar foundational questions for linguistic theory, Negative Polarity Items enter into complex and often revealing interactions with a host of other phenomena in grammar
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305 years, 6 months
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11
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Investigating several such interactions, the course touches on topics such as focus, presupposition, exhaustification, quantification, (in)definiteness, modals and attitudes, comparison and superlatives, and questions
Course Currilcum
- Entailment, entailment-reversal, non-monotonicity, negated DPs Unlimited
- Modified numeral quantifiers with distributive vs. collective predicates, maximal informativity, preview of the explanation Unlimited
- Strawson entailment, surprise, only, singular definite descriptions Unlimited
- Extension of the entailment relation, decomposing definites, partitives, distributivity operator Unlimited
- Conjunction, type-shifting, event semantics, thematic roles, exhaustivity Unlimited
- Existential modals, exhaustification, revision of the Condition Unlimited
- Existence presupposition, constraints and requirements on pruning Unlimited
- Exceptives, approximatives, reconstruction, universal modals, mass vs. count nouns Unlimited
- Other modal environments, Hindi NPIs, probability, and explanation Unlimited
- Additivity, singular definites, accommodation, non-monotone quantifiers, desire predicates Unlimited
- Intervention, minimizers, and variation Unlimited
