In this book, Chris Collins and Paul Postal consider examples such the one below onthe interpretation where Nancy thinks that this course is not interesting: Nancy doesn'tthink this course is interesting.
They argue such examples instantiate akind of syntactic raising that they term Classical NEG Raising. This involves the raising of a NEG(negation) from the embedded clause to the matrix clause. Collins and Postal develop three mainarguments to support their claim. First, they show that Classical NEG Raising obeys islandconstraints. Second, they document that a syntactic raising analysis predicts both thegrammaticality and particular properties of what they term Horn clauses (named for Laurence Horn,who discovered them). Finally, they argue that the properties of certainparenthetical structures strongly support the syntactic character of ClassicalNEG Raising.
Collins and Postal also offer a detailed analysis of the mainargument in the literature against a syntactic raising analysis (which they call the ComposedQuantifier Argument). They show that the facts appealed to in this argument not only fail toconflict with their approach but actually support a syntactic view. In the course of their argument,Collins and Postal touch on a variety of related topics, including the syntax of negative polarityitems, the status of sequential negation, and the scope of negative quantifiers.
Chris Collins is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. Paul M. Postal is the author of many books, including On Raising and Edge-Based Clausal Syntax (both published by the MIT Press). Collins and Postal are coauthors of Imposters: A Study of Pronominal Agreement (MIT Press).
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