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Peer reviewedLee, Chungmin – Language Sciences, 1996
Examines negative polarity items in English and Korean and argues that a consistent explanation emerges if certain assumptions are entertained about indefiniteness and concession by arbitrary choice. The article maintains that the logical consequences of monotone decreasingness is transparent with strong negatives but less so with weaker ones. (18…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Korean, Negative Forms (Language)
Peer reviewedWard, Gregory; Birner, Betty – Language, 1995
Presents an account of existential "there"-sentences in which the postverbal negative phrase (NP) is required to represent a "hearer-new" entity. The article identifies five types of formally definite yet hearer-new NPs that may occur in "there"-sentences. The restriction against definite NPs in "there"-sentences results from a mismatch in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Negative Forms (Language)
Peer reviewedCarston, Robyn; Noh, Eun-Ju – Language Sciences, 1996
Argues that essential property of metalinguistic negation is that it involves the echoic use of material falling within the scope of negation operator. This analysis receives support from an investigation of data from Korean. (25 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Contrastive Linguistics, Inferences, Korean
