Negative Indefinites

• Addresses key questions in syntax and semantics
• Provides clear empirical arguments based on new and intriguing data
• Inspires greater collaboration between syntacticians and semanticists

Readership: Linguists interested in negation and the syntax-semantics interface from graduate level upwards.

Doris Penka, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz

1: Introduction
2: Negative Concord
3: Split Scope of NIs in German
4: Scope Splitting With Other Downward Entailing Quantifiers
5: Distributional Restrictions in Scandinavian
6: The Nature of the Licensing Relation
7: Tests for the Quantificational Force of Negative Indefinites
8: Summary
Bibliography
Index