出版物 ｜Sophia Linguistica
Yasuhiko Kato
The concept of scope has been one of the basic ideas in the studies of negation. Based
on data from Japanese, we will show that the diagnostics of scope, i.e., the licensing
of negative polarity items and the possibility of negative interpretation, do not always
show the same result. We propose the marked notion of scope extension and pursue its
theoretical implications for the Merge-based syntactic framework.
