Doris Penka

Split Scope of Negative Indefinites

Negative indefinites, i.e. expressions like English nobody and no boy, give rise to split scope readings where another operator takes scope in between the negative and the indefinite meaning component. Split readings are puzzling under the standard analysis of negative indefinites as negative quantifiers. This article surveys recent approaches to split scope.

Negative Features on Negative Indefinites: Evidence from Split Scope

The assumption that negative indenites are semantically non-negative elements associating with sentential negation has proven fruitful to account for the behaviour of negative indenites in languages exhibiting negative concord. Under this view, negative indenites carry a negative feature that has to be licensed by a semantic negation. This paper critically discusses and evaluates dierent ways in which the notion of negative features can be spelled out. Particular attention is paid to ap