The main goal of this article is to argue for the existence and crosslinguistic stability a phenomenon that I call “negation-licensed commands” (NLCs), in which commands can be interpreted as such only presence negation. explores morphosyntactic properties NLCs small number unrelated languages. It stops short an analysis phenomenon, will have await future research.

Abstract In this article, we take into consideration two semantics of the future tense: linearism, according to which future-tense sentences are interpreted on a single history, and universalism, they evaluated by universally quantifying plurality histories that radiate from present instant. Specifically, focus objection advanced against universalism: if universalism were correct will , negated...

This article explores negation in Chinese on the basis of written and spoken corpora of Mandarin Chinese. The use of corpus data not only reveals central tendencies in language based on quantitative data, it also provides typical examples attested in authentic contexts. In this study we will first discuss negation variants in general terms, on the basis of which the focus will be shifted to the...

This paper describes our participation in the closed track of the *SEM 2012 Shared Task of finding the scope of negation. To perform the task, we propose a system that has three components: negation cue detection, scope of negation detection, and negated event detection. In the first phase, the system creates a lexicon of negation signals from the training data and uses the lexicon to identify ...