{"id":8299,"date":"2016-04-20T05:01:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T09:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2016-04-20T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:20:12","slug":"ling-lunch-421-daniel-margulis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/04\/20\/ling-lunch-421-daniel-margulis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling Lunch 4\/21 - Daniel Margulis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Daniel Margulis<\/a> <\/strong> (MIT)<\/br>
\nTitle: Expletive negation is an exponent of only<\/em><\/br>
\nTime: Thursday, April 21th, 12:30-1:50 pm<\/br>
\nPlace: 32-D461<\/p>\n

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Contrary to the natural assumption that negative morphemes bring about truth-condition reversal, Hebrew sentential negation does not always make the expected contribution to meaning, just like other instances of expletive negation crosslinguistically.<\/br><\/p>\n

Hebrew expletive negation is found in until-clauses (1) and free (headless) relative clauses (2).<\/p>\n

\n(1)   yoni   yaSan ad     Se    ha-Sxenim       lo     hidliku muzika <\/br>
\n +++<\/span> yoni slept   until that the-neighbors neg   lit       music <\/br>
\n ++<\/span> “Yoni was asleep until the neighbors turned on some music.” <\/br>\n<\/p>\n

\n(2)   mi    Se    lo      yaSav b-a-xacer    kibel ugiya <\/br>
\n +++<\/span> who that neg sat      in-the-yard received cookie <\/br>
\n ++<\/span> “Whoever was sitting in the yard got a cookie.”<\/p>\n

\nIn this talk I discuss expletive negation’s contribution to interpretation and argue that the until data should be understood as an obligatory scalar implicature, arising due to an association between expletive negation and a covert `only’.<\/p>\n

\nWhy should the negative morpheme participating in expletive negation carry the meaning of `only’? I follow von Fintel & Iatridou’s (2007) decompositional analysis of `only’, according to which only has two components: negation and an exceptive, as attested overtly in some languages, e.g., French `ne…que’ and Greek `dhen…para’. Under such a view, the status of expletive negation would simply be that of any ordinary negation, and the only special property of expletive negation constructions would be that they contain a covert exceptive head.<\/p>\n

\nI provide further support for the current proposal from the observations that expletive negation cannot license negative concord and that an overt `only’ cannot accompany expletive negation. Finally, I will mention a direction in which the proposal could be extended to the free relatives data.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Daniel Margulis (MIT) Title: Expletive negation is an exponent of only Time: Thursday, April 21th, 12:30-1:50 pm Place: 32-D461 Contrary to the natural assumption that negative morphemes bring about truth-condition reversal, Hebrew sentential negation does not always make the expected contribution to meaning, just like other instances of expletive negation crosslinguistically. Hebrew expletive negation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8326,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}