This is a new article on negated quantifier phrases.
https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003642?_s=A6s8qGap_LzKi5b6&_k=XGvqD5SPLeL5LWbF
This paper continues a series of papers on the syntax and semantics of negated quantifier phrases, such as [not everybody] and [not many people]. Consider examples such as (1):
https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003642?_s=A6s8qGap_LzKi5b6&_k=XGvqD5SPLeL5LWbF
This paper discusses two ways of negating DP quantifier phrases. In one
way, NEG modifies the quantifier D directly with the structure [[NEG D] NP] (inner
negation). In the other way, NEG modifies the whole DP with the structure [NEG
DP] (outer negation). I give evidence based on negative polarity items that negated
universal quantifier phrases like not every student involve outer
negation.
(1) Not every student was there.
The question is whether the structure is (2a) or (2b):
(2) a. [not [every student]] was there.
b. [[not every] student] was there.
I give evidence in this paper, based on the distribution of NPIs for the structure in (2a).
The results fit in with the results of a series of papers I have written recently in the wake of Collins and Postal 2014, which introduced a number of syntactic and semantic assumptions about negation.
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