What's Not to Like

Jacopo Romoli; Matthew  Mandelkern

doi:10.1162/ling_a_00354

What's Not to Like

Jacopo Romoli
, Matthew Mandelkern

University of Oxford

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In this squib, we show that there is indeed a class of predicates which give rise to neg- raising inferences but do not license strong NPIs: namely, factive emotives like ‘appreciate’, ‘be glad’, ‘be happy’, and ‘like’. This is a striking fact which we believe provides support for the Gajewski-Chierchia theory. We also point to some challenges this class of predicates poses for traditional approaches to neg-raising, and make a suggestion about how these might be overcome in a semantic approach to neg-raising.2

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	815-828
Number of pages	14
Journal	Linguistic Inquiry
Volume	51
Issue number	4
Early online date	25 Jun 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00354
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - Oct 2020

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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