For Tuesday 4/13, please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Cruse, D. Alan. 1986. Opposites, Part I: Complementaries and antonyms. From Lexical Semantics (Chapter 9). Â Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Note: sections 9.1-9.5 are required. Â Sections 9.6-9.8 are optional.)
For Tuesday 4/6, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Jespersen, Otto. 1917. Negation in English and Other Languages. Copenhagen: A.F. Host. (excerpt)
For Thursday 4/1, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format:) Postal, Paul. 2004. The structure of one type of American English Vulgar Minimizer. In Skeptical Linguistic Essays (Chap. 5). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
For Tuesday 3/23, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Martin, Stefan and Walt Wolfram. 1998. The sentence in African-American Vernacular English. In African-American English: Structure, history, and use, S. Mufwene et al. (eds), 11-36. London: Routledge. Pay particular attention to the discussion of …
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For Tuesday 3/16 and Thursday 3/18, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Zeijlstra, Hedde. 2007. Negation in natural language: On the form and meaning of negative elements. Language and Linguistics Compass 1: 498-518.
For next Tuesday, please read the following papers, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” sections of this website: 1. Ladusaw, W. (1980) “On the notion ‘affective’ in the analysis of negative-polarity items” (pages 1-7) 2. Fauconnier, G. (1978) “Implication reversal in a natural language” (pages 289-295; those of you who have taken Semantics 1 …
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For next Thursday, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Zwicky, Arnold M. & Geoffrey K. Pullum. 1983. Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t. Language 59: 502-513. In the paper, Zwicky and Pullum ask whether n’t should really be considered a contracted form of not (as ‘ve …
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For next week, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Zanuttini, Raffaella. 1994. Re-examining negative clauses. In Paths Towards Universal Grammar: Studies in Honor of Richard S. Kayne, G. Cinque et al. (eds), 427-451. Georgetown University Press. Most likely, we will not get to the reading until Thursday 2/11.  Tuesday’s …
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For Thursday 2/4, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Potsdam, Eric. 1997. NegP and subjunctive complements in English. Linguistic Inquiry 28: 533-541. The Potsdam paper provides an empirical argument for the syntactic structure of the English clause/standard negation that we will develop in …
For Thursday 1/28, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Dryer, Matthew. 1989. Universals of negative position. In Studies in Syntactic Typology, M. Hammond, E. Moravcsik, and J. Wirth (eds), 93-124. Amsterdam:Â John Benjamins. (Remember that the password for the “Readings” section is listed on …