Dear all,
The Linguistics Colloquium Series is having a talk this Friday, 02/24, in Oak 408 (OTHER ROOM THAN USUAL), at 4:00pm.We would like to invite you to join us and see Prof. Chris Collins' (New York University) talk 'On the Syntax and Semantics of Negated Quantifier Phrases'. The abstract is attached below.Information about the speaker can be found here: http://linguistics.as.nyu.edu/object/ChrisCollins.html The Linguistics Colloquium Series is a student-organized event sponsored by the UConn Department of Linguistics, the UConn Graduate Student Senate (GSS).We hope to see you there!Gabriel & Paula
Abstract:In this talk, I discuss negation in examples such as those in (1):
(1) a. Not every student attended class.
b. Not many people were at the party.
I discuss problems with Lasnik's 1972/1976 Pre-S analysis of such
examples. In Lasnik's analysis, negation is generated in a clause
initial position by the phrase structure rule in (2):
(2) S --> Pre-S NP VP
I present evidence based on scope freezing effects for the constituent
structure in (3):
(3) a. [not every student] attended class.
b. [not many people] were at the party.
Lastly, I discuss criteria for diagnosing inner versus outer negation,
illustrated in (4):
(4) a. [[not every] student] attended class. (inner negation)
b. [not [every student]] attended class. (outer negation)