Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference (한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2007.11a
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- Pages.115-125
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- 2007
A New Type of NPI Licensing Context: Evidence from French Subjunctive and NE Expletif
- Choi, Yoon-Hee (Department of French Education Seoul National University)
- Published : 2007.11.01
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to propose a new type of NPI licensing context through French subjunctive and ne expletif. The distribution of NPIs on previous studies does not exactly correspond to negative function types. French subjunctive and ne expletif are good guidelines for reclassifying NPI licensing context. My classification is by a hierarchy of strength in negative force: overtly negative proposition > negative entailment > negative implicature. A new type of NPI licensing context is: (i) I-domain for negative implicature (ⅱ) E-domain for negative entailment and (ⅲ) overt negation.