Chris Collins and Paul M. Postal
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027311
- eISBN:
- 9780262323840
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027311.003.0018
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology
This chapter deals with the phenomenon known as Never Raising and shows that it represents a syntactic raising phenomenon. It first considers problems in a potential nonsyntactic account of Never ...
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This chapter deals with the phenomenon known as Never Raising and shows that it represents a syntactic raising phenomenon. It first considers problems in a potential nonsyntactic account of Never Raising similar to the nonsyntactic account associated with Classical NEG Raising (NR). It then examines the paraphrase relations between putative Never Raising cases and otherwise parallel clauses in which the never is in the complement, along with evidence for the syntactic character of the phenomenon from adverbial modification. It also presents sentences that illustrate Never Raising from the complement of a truth predicate, from a clause with a cleft construction, and from a pseudocleft construction. Finally, it discusses parallels between Never Raising and Classical NR.Less
This chapter deals with the phenomenon known as Never Raising and shows that it represents a syntactic raising phenomenon. It first considers problems in a potential nonsyntactic account of Never Raising similar to the nonsyntactic account associated with Classical NEG Raising (NR). It then examines the paraphrase relations between putative Never Raising cases and otherwise parallel clauses in which the never is in the complement, along with evidence for the syntactic character of the phenomenon from adverbial modification. It also presents sentences that illustrate Never Raising from the complement of a truth predicate, from a clause with a cleft construction, and from a pseudocleft construction. Finally, it discusses parallels between Never Raising and Classical NR.