A New Type of NPI Licensing Context: Evidence from French Subjunctive and NE Expletif
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The purpose of this paper is to propose a new type of NPI licensing context through French subjunctive and ne explétif. The distribution of NPIs on previous studies does not exactly correspond to negative function types. French subjunctive and ne expletif are good guidelines for reclassifying NPI licensing context. My classification is by a hierarchy of strength in negative force: overtly negative proposition > negative entailment > negative implicature. A new type of NPI licensing context is: (i) I-domain for negative implicature (ii) E-domain for negative entailment and (iii) overt negation.
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NPI Licensing , Strawson Entailment , and Context Dependency KAI
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