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  Surface structure constraints on negative polarity and word order in Hindi and English y [1 citations — 0 self]

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by Shravan Vasishth
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Abstract:

Hindi negative polarity items (NPIs), unlike English NPIs, can occur in subject position, outside the scope of negation at s-structure. I present an analysis for this phenomenon set in categorial grammar, where licensing occurs at s-structure in both English and Hindi. This treatment has the following advantages: it is monostratal and strictly lexical; NPI licensing is driven by monotonicity marking on licensors and NPIs rather than c-command, which extends the empiricial coverage of our analysis to NPI licensors which don't have any overt negation present in them; and the correct semantics is built up compositionally due to the Curry-Howard correspondence. 1

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