Affective Dependencies

Limited distribution phenomena related to negation and negative polarity are usually thought of in terms of affectivity where affective is understood as negative or downward entailing. In this paper I propose an analysis of affective contexts as nonveridical and treat negative polarity as a manifest...

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Published in:Linguistics and philosophy Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 367 - 421
Main Author: Giannakidou, Anastasia
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.08.1999
Springer
D. Reidel Publishing Company
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Application programming interfaces
Contrafactuals
Descriptive studies and applied theories
Greek
Greek language
Implicature
Inference
Linguistics
Logic of Language
Negation
Polarity
Quantifiers
Rhetorical questions
Semantic Analysis
Semantic Categories
Semantics
Semantics and pragmatics
Subjunctive mood
Tin
Truth
Verbs
Negation
Affectivity
Semantics
Dependence
Polarity
Implicature
Truth
ISSN:0165-0157, 1573-0549
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Summary:Limited distribution phenomena related to negation and negative polarity are usually thought of in terms of affectivity where affective is understood as negative or downward entailing. In this paper I propose an analysis of affective contexts as nonveridical and treat negative polarity as a manifestation of the more general phenomenon of sensitivity to (non)veridicality (which is, I argue, what affective dependencies boil down to). Empirical support for this analysis will be provided by a detailed examination of affective dependencies in Greek, but the distribution of any will also be shown to follow from (non)veridicality.
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ISSN:0165-0157
1573-0549
DOI:10.1023/A:1005492130684