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On the syntax of English minimizers

机译:关于英语最小化器的语法

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The syntactic behaviour of English minimizers such as (not) a/one word, (not) a/one bit and (not) sleep a/one wink is puzzling: while they can behave as polarity items (PIs) in non-negative and negative contexts, they become negative quantifiers (NQs) when merged with a negation in negative contexts. Unlike previous accounts, where emphasis is put mainly on highlighting the similarity of minimizers to any-PIs and on supporting the contribution of an even-reading, I integrate the peculiar behaviour of minimizers in English within an analysis of negative indefinites as existential quantifiers that can structurally associate with negation in different ways. I claim that English minimizers contain three basic ingredients: a Numeral Phrase, a Focus particle and, in negative contexts, a Negative Phrase, not. The presence of a Focus particle even in the structure of minimizers plus the flexible merging possibilities of not with respect to the other two components of the minimizer result in their NQ-like behaviour, which can be now fully integrated into a theory of negative indefinites as syntactic objects that are compositionally built.
机译:英语最小化器的语法行为(例如(一个)/一个单词,(一个)/一个位和(不)睡眠一个/一个眨眼)令人困惑:尽管它们可以在非负数和负数中充当极性项(PI)。否定语境,它们与否定语境中的否定词合并时会成为否定量词(NQ)。与以前的论述不同,我主要强调突出最小化器与任何PI的相似性,并支持均匀阅读的贡献,我将英语中最小化器的特殊行为整合到对负不定式的分析中,作为存在量词,可以否定在结构上与否定相关。我声称英语最小化器包含三个基本成分:一个数字短语,一个Focus粒子,在否定的上下文中则没有一个否定短语。即使在最小化器的结构中也存在Focus粒子,加上灵活的合并可能性(相对于最小化器的其他两个组件而言),会导致它们具有类似NQ的行为,现在可以完全整合为负不定论,例如结构化构建的句法对象。

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