This books studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with
sentential negatives in Hindi. It outlines the clause structure of
Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as
well as constituent negatives within the structure. It is argued
that sentential negative in Hindi negation marker heads its own
maximal projection, NegP, which is immediately dominated by TP. In
addition to locating the position of negation markers in the clause
structure, it outlines the distribution of negative polarity items
(NPIs) in Hindi and the structural constraints on their licensing
by sentential negative. The book argues that an NPI in Hindi is
licensed overtly in the course of derivation by a c-commanding
negative marker. The bulk of the evidence presented in this book
argues against previous theoretical accounts that claim that NPI
licensing involves covert syntactic operations such as LF movement
or reconstruction. With respect to the classification of NPIs, this
book also shows the existence of two different types of NPIs in
Hindi; namely, strong NPIs and weak NPIs. Strong NPIs require a
clause mate c-commanding negative licensor, whereas weak NPIs are
quantifiers and are similar to free choice 'any' in English that
are interpreted as NPIs in the presence of a c-commanding negative
licensor.
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