TY - CONF

T1 - Expletive-free, concord-free semantics for Russian ni-words

AU - Tiskin, Daniel

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2017.All right reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - The paper presents a puzzle about the licensing of the NPI bisyndetic coordinator ni..ni in Russian: being in many respects similar to other Russian NPIs with ni-as prefix, itdoes not require negation to be present when it conjoins VPs. Starting with the hypothesisthat the semantics of ni-remains constant across different uses, I adapt the mechanismof NPI licensing proposed by Chierchia [2] to the needs of the puzzle. The central ideaof the proposal is that a token of ni splits the composition process into two processesrunning in parallel until the null operator licensing NPIs unites them back. Negation,whenever present, affects only one of those processes, whose result is then checked by thenull operator.

AB - The paper presents a puzzle about the licensing of the NPI bisyndetic coordinator ni..ni in Russian: being in many respects similar to other Russian NPIs with ni-as prefix, itdoes not require negation to be present when it conjoins VPs. Starting with the hypothesisthat the semantics of ni-remains constant across different uses, I adapt the mechanismof NPI licensing proposed by Chierchia [2] to the needs of the puzzle. The central ideaof the proposal is that a token of ni splits the composition process into two processesrunning in parallel until the null operator licensing NPIs unites them back. Negation,whenever present, affects only one of those processes, whose result is then checked by thenull operator.

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M3 - Paper

AN - SCOPUS:85070984566

SP - 484

EP - 491

T2 - 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2017

Y2 - 20 December 2017 through 22 December 2017

ER -