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On the Scopal Interaction of Negation and Deontic Modals

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Logic, Language and Meaning

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In this paper we argue that the different scopal relations that deontic modal auxiliaries cross-linguistically exhibit can be explained by assuming that (i) polarity effects arise in the domain of universal deontic modals and therefore not in the domain of existential deontic modals; and (ii) that all deontic modals must be interpreted VP in situ if their polarity requirements allow for that.

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  1. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Sabine Iatridou

  2. Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134 (lsg NTK), 1012, VB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Hedde Zeijlstra

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    Maria Aloni , Harald Bastiaanse , Tikitu de Jager  & Katrin Schulz , ,  & 

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Iatridou, S., Zeijlstra, H. (2010). On the Scopal Interaction of Negation and Deontic Modals. In: Aloni, M., Bastiaanse, H., de Jager, T., Schulz, K. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_32

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