Paper

The lexical and grammatical sources of neg-raising inferences

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Abstract

We investigate neg(ation)-raising inferences, wherein negation on a predicate can be interpreted as though in that predicate\'s subordinate clause. To do this, we collect a large-scale dataset of neg-raising judgments for effectively all English clause-embedding verbs and develop a model to jointly induce the semantic types of verbs and their subordinate clauses and the relationship of these types to neg-raising inferences. We find that some neg-raising inferences are attributable to properties of particular predicates, while others are attributable to subordinate clause structure.

Keywords: negation raising, neg-raising, neg-raising inference, clausal complement, subordinate clause, embedded clause, finite complement clause, nonfinite complement clause, clause-embedding verb, semantics, syntax

How to Cite:

An, H. Y. & White, A. S., (2020) “The lexical and grammatical sources of neg-raising inferences”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 3(1), 220-233. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/yts0-q989