NEGATIONAND POLARITY SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- FOREWORD -- Table of contents -- THE SYNTAX OF FRENCH NEGATIVE ADVERBS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pas in the Finite VP -- 2.1 Against V Movement -- 2.2 Against adjunction of pas to V0 -- 3. The double positioning of adverbs -- 3.1 Pas is adjoined to the infinitival VP -- 4. Postverbal negation: adjunct or complement? -- 5. A treatment in HPSG -- 5.1 Phrasal schemata -- 5.2 Lexical descriptions and lexical rules -- 5.3. Linear precedence rules -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE SYNTAX OF SENTENTIAL NEGATION IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH -- 1. General considerations -- 2. The checking model -- 2.1 Multiply-specified lexical items -- 2.2 Selection and the position of NEG -- 3. Sentential negation and endocentricity -- 3.1 The data -- 3.2 The analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A NON-UNIFIED ANALYSIS OF NEGATIVE CONCORD -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Similarities between French and Haïtian Creole N-words -- 3. Differences between French and Haïtian Creole N-words licensing -- 3.1 Locality constraints on Negative Concord -- 3.2 Compatibility with Negation -- 4. Proposed analysis -- 4.1 The status of N-words -- 4.2 French Negative Concord -- 4.3 Haitian Negative Concord -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- NON-NEGATIVE NEGATION AND WH-EXCLAMATIVES -- 1. The data -- 2. Characterizing the data -- 2.1 Contrast between polarized rhetorical questions and wh-exclamatives and early obligatory movement -- 2.2 Optionality of the negative marker -- 2.3 N-words cannot occur in wh-exclamatives -- 2.4 Exclamative wh-phrases are operators binding a variable -- 2.5 Double reading: negative interrogatives vs. intensive exclamatives -- 2.6 Meaning of wh-words and value of variables -- 2.7 Non-specificity of wh-expressions -- 2.8 Relative scope -- 2.9 Tense opacity.

3. Structural configuration -- 3.1 Logical absorption of non-negative negation -- 3.2 Evidence for logical absorption -- REFERENCES -- LONG-DISTANCE LICENSING OF NEGATIVE INDEFINITES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Weak and strong licensing of NPIs -- 2.1 The analysis -- 2.2 Application to negative indefinites in Greek and Catalan -- 3. Long-distance licensing -- 3.1 How decisive is the role of mood? -- 3.2 The types of selecting predicates -- 3.3 The case ofepistemicNeg-raising verbs -- 4. Conclusion: an extension of the analysis -- REFERENCES -- THE SYNTAX OF N-WORDS AND THE NEG CRITERION -- 1. The NEG criterion -- 2. Negative 1 Concord -- 2.1 Negative Concord as a by-product of the NEG criterion -- 2.2 Constraints on negative concord -- 3. Déprez (1995) -- 4. West Flemish negation -- 4.1 Negation in WF: a brief outline -- 4.2 N-words in WF -- 4.3 PPs with negative complements -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- NEGATION AND NEGATIVE CONCORD IN MIDDLE DUTCH -- 1. Developments in the Dutch negation system -- 1.1 The Jespersen cycle -- 1.2 Functional pressures in the cycle of negation -- 2. Remarks on the formal treatment of Middle Dutch double negation -- 2.1 Haegeman's (1995) proposal -- 2.2 N-words as polarity items: a hybrid theory -- 3. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- NEGATIVE POLARITY AND THE DYNAMICS OF VERTICAL INFERENCE -- 1. Symmetricalism and its discontents -- 2. The symmetricalists strike back -- polarity and monotonicity -- 3. Conversion, vertical inference, and polarity -- 3.1 Vertical inference, medieval style -- 3.2 only, shmonly, and conservativity -- 3.3 Conversion and NPI licensing -- 4. Barely half right-or almost half wrong? -- 5. Ockham, only, and the onus of history -- REFERENCES -- NEGATION AS A REFLEX OF CLAUSE STRUCTURE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical assumptions -- 2.1 Verb Second -- 3. Old English.

3.1 Issues of V2, clause structure and the status of OE pronouns -- 3.2 Negation in Old English -- 3.3 Multiple sentential negation and clause structure in OE -- 3.4 Developments after Old English -- 4. Old French -- 4.1 Negation in Old French -- 4.2 The interaction of negation and V-movement -- 4.3 A diagnostic for the position of the finite verb -- 4.4 Developments after the Old French period -- 4.5 Concluding remarks· on French -- 5. Conclusion: similarities and contrasts between Old French and Old English -- REFERENCES -- THE SCALAR MODEL OF POLARITY SENSITIVITY: THE CASE OF THE ASPECTUAL OPERATORS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Polarity and the scalar principle -- 3. Two scalar properties and four sorts of polarity item -- 4. Aspectual polarity items -- 4.1 Already and yet: inceptive scales -- 4.2 Still and anymore: continuative scales -- 4.3 Strict sensitivities and other operators -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- LA NÉGATION COMME EXPRESSION PROCÉDURALE -- 1. Négations métalinguistiques -- 2. Négation, vériconditionnalité et assertabilité -- 3. La négation métalinguistique et l'usage échoïque du langage -- 4. Une approche contextuelle de la négation -- 5. La négation est-elle un opérateur non vériconditionnel? -- RÉFÉRENCES -- DE PARTITIF ET LA NÉGATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Questions posées par l'occurrence de de N en phrase négative -- 3. Les données -- 3.1 Emploi en phrase simple avec pas, en position postverbale directe -- 3.2 En contextes de négation sans pas, en phrase simple -- 3.3 Facteurs affectant l'occurrence de de -- 3.4 Occurrence à distance, dans une subordonnée -- 3.5 En construction non verbale -- 3.6 Emplois particuliers avec des mots négatifs -- 3.7 Emplois avec les constructions à négation explétive -- 3.8 Emplois à polarité négative -- 4. La dérivation de de N -- 4.1 Lasolution pas de Nn 'est pas satisfaisante.

4.2 Antécédent impropre et élément vide. -- 4.3 Latête de de N est un élément vide à valeur de quantifieur non spécifié. -- 4.4 Le sens proposé conduit à voir en (e) de N un NPI. -- 4.5 L'obligation du liage a un antecedent expliquera pourquoi, contrairement aux NPI, l'occurrence de de n'est pas libre dans les contextes a polarite. -- 4.6 L'antécédent (dans l' utilisation standard en français actuel) est la négation syntaxique, passant par la position canonique postverbale d'occurrence de pas. -- 4.7 La sequence (e) de N est liee a la position postverbale de la negation, meme lorsque la negation n'y figure pas. -- 4.8 Les contraintes affectant la construction (e) de N sont les mêmes dans les emplois en subordonnée de principale négative. -- 4.9 La position post-verbale qui régit les compléments de N est celle de la quantification de l'action verbale. -- 4.10 Les deux types d'emplois sans négation. -- 5. Conclusion -- RÉFÉRENCES -- NEGATION AND INDEFINITES IN MAORI -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Negation in Maori -- 2.1 Maori sentence structure -- 2.2 Negative sentences -- 3. The syntax of he-indefinites -- 3.1 Two classes of he-indefinites -- 3.2 The positions occupied by he -indefinites -- 4. Binding conditions for he-NPs -- 5. Conclusion and summary -- REFERENCES -- A. Data sources -- B. Studies -- EXTENDING THE NOTION OF NEGATIVE CONCORD -- 1. The state of the art on negative concord -- 2. Reinforcing Ladusaw's approach to n-words in NC languages -- 3. Reviewing some arguments -- 4. In search of a unified approach -- 5. Licensing of n-words across clause boundaries -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE ROLE OF FOCUS IN THE LICENSING AND INTERPRETATION OF NEGATIVE POLARITY ITEMS -- 1. Overview -- 2. Interpretation of any -- 2.1 Widening -- 2.2 Any and widening -- 2.3 Focus and widening -- 3. Licensing of any in questions.

4. The role of focus in distinguishing the two kinds of any -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- JESPERSEN, NEGATIVE CONCORD AND A'-BINDING -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Negative Cycle and the NegP hypothesis -- 3. H & Z (1991): the Neg Criterion -- 4. Progovac (1994 -- etc.): A'-binding -- 5. Jespersen's Generalisation -- 5.1 Why NC languages are NC languages... -- 5.2 ...and why non-NC languages are not -- 6. West Flemish: a counterexample to Jespersen's Generalisation? -- 6.1 The data (Haegeman) -- 6.2 The analysis -- 7. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- NEG-MOVEMENT AND WH-MOVEMENT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overt wh-movement and sentence negation -- 3. Personne and L-Tous -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF TERMS & CONCEPTS -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES & LANGUAGE FAMILIES.