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Kang, Seung-Man. “Negation and Scope.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 39.1 (2013): 227-241. This paper delves into some interesting aspects of negation in terms of Negative Concord (NC), negation classification, and negative scope ambiguity in English. In this paper, I defend the view that English is an NC language and it thereby has the functional phrase NegP headed by Neg. The distinction, however, should be made between NC and DN (Double Negation), in which two negatives cancel each other out in order to yield one affirmative statement. As for the classification of negation, I argue that negation is virtually reduced to clausal versus phrasal negation. If the Neg head projects NegP selected by T, it is referred to as clausal negation. If a negator adjoins to any phrase, on the other hand, it is simply treated as a negative adverbial. Negation in English gives rise to scope ambiguity against negated elements, yielding a surface scope reading and an inverse scope reading. The inverse scope reading usually occurs when negated elements are focused via the stress or intonation. I propose that the focused elements and the Neg head share the focus (FOC) feature and they undergo feature checking by reconstruction at LF. (Chungbuk National University)

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Abstract
 I. Introduction
 II. Expressing Negation
  2.1 Four Negation Types
  2.2 Sentential vs. Constituent Negation
 III. Scope in Negation
  3.1 Syntactic vs. Semantic Negation
  3.2 Syntactic Negation and Scope Ambiguity
  3.3 Focus and Context
 IV. Conclusion
 Works Cited

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• Seung-Man Kang [ Chungbuk National University ]

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  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

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  1226-8682

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  1972~2020

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  KDC 840 DDC 820