@article{article_528091, title={Negative polarity, scope of negation and negative phrases in Turkish}, journal={Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies}, volume={14}, pages={136–149}, year={2018}, author={Görgülü, Emrah}, keywords={Negative polarity; scope of negation; semantics; Turkish}, abstract={<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border:none;"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:456.3pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid 1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="en-us" style="color:#7030A0;" xml:lang="en-us">Please fill up the following information accurately. (Please use Times New Roman, 12 pt. </span> </p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" style="width:456.3pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"> <span style="background-color:transparent;"> <b>Negative polarity, scope of negation and negative phrases in Turkish </b> </span> </p> <p> <b> </b> </p> <b> </b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" style="width:456.3pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:4pt 14.2pt;"> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">This paper investigates a number of issues regarding negative polarity items (NPIs henceforth), the scope of negation and other negative elements in Turkish. First, based on new data, I argue that the distribution of the adverbial NPI  </span> <em style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">sakın ’ever’  </em> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">is not as restricted as it was claimed in previous work (cf. Kelepir 2000, 2001). That’s, its behavior is quite similar to that of other adverbial NPIs such as  </span> <em style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">asla </em> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;"> ’never’ and  </span> <em style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">katiyyen </em> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;"> ’in no way’ in the language. Second, in contrast to the some claims made by Kelepir (2000, 2001), I show that neither NPIs nor negation invoke any intervention effects in the environment of Noun Phrases (NPs). Thus I argue that it is not necessary to posit the Immediate Scope Constraint in Turkish. Lastly, I investigate the interaction between the  </span> <em style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">ne... ne... </em> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">phrase (i.e. neither… nor…) and negation in Turkish. More specifically, a small-scale online corpus research on the use of the  </span> <em style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">ne... ne... </em> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;"> phrase along with negation produced results that are in agreement with the account proposed by Şener and İşsever (2003). However, the results also illustrate the fact that negation occurs only when the  </span> <em style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">ne... ne...  </em> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.2px;">phrase conjoins constituents smaller than clauses.        </span> <br /> </p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" style="width:456.3pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"> <b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Information about Author(s)* </span> </b> </p> <p> <b> </b> </p> <b> </b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" style="width:456.3pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"> <b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Author 1 </span> </b> </p> <p> <b> </b> </p> <b> </b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="243" valign="top" style="width:182.5pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Author (Last name, First name) </span> </p> <p> </p> </td> <td width="365" valign="top" style="width:273.8pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid 1pt;border-right:solid 1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> Görgülü, Emrah </span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="243" valign="top" style="width:182.5pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Affiliated institution (University) </span> </p> <p> </p> </td> <td width="365" valign="top" style="width:273.8pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid 1pt;border-right:solid 1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">  </span> <span style="background-color:transparent;">İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University}, number={4}, publisher={Hacettepe University} }