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Unembedded ‘Negative’ Quantifiers

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Unembedded ‘negative’ quantifiers, which are isolated in conversation initial position, provide evidence for the debate between the direct interpretation analysis of an isolated quantifier and the ellipsis analysis. In fact, unembedding of a Greek ‘negative’ quantifier KANENAS supports the former, while unembedding of a Russian ‘negative’ quantifier ni-kogo supports the latter.

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  1. Department of Linguistics, McGill University, 1085 Dr. Penfield, Montréal, Québec, H3A 1A7, Canada

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Furukawa, Y. (2007). Unembedded ‘Negative’ Quantifiers. In: Washio, T., Satoh, K., Takeda, H., Inokuchi, A. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4384. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69902-6_20

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