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piñón: negating right boundary achievements (comments on malink)

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In this paper, Malink's (2007) account of right boundary achievements under conative negation is critically reviewed. Two potential problems are described for it, one concerning the question whether presuppositions are modifiable, and another concerning the usefulness of the kind of presupposition that Malink assumes for right boundary achievements. Finally, an alternative account is proposed that succeeds in avoiding these two potential issues.

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I presented the original version of this commentary on 25 June 2005 at Workshop Satz und Kontext, Universität Leipzig, 25–26 June 2005.

The paper below is a thoroughly revised version of what I presented at the workshop.

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marko malink: right boundary achievements under conative negation

abstract

Right boundary achievements such as 'find' and 'win' denote an instantaneous end point of an activity aiming at this end point. When being negated, right boundary achievements tend to imply that an activity of trying to achieve the end point is going on at the reference time. For example, when Peter does not find his key, it is implied that he is searching for it. The present paper is to describe the aspectual properties of this kind of conative negation, and the circumstances under which it occurs in German, Czech and Ancient Greek. It will be suggested that conative negation takes narrow scope with respect to viewpoint aspect and that it is located below the aspect phrase in the semantic composition of sentences. A proposal will be made how conative negation can be treated within event semantics.

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Malink presented the original version of this paper on 25 June 2005 at Workshop Satz und Kontext, Universität Leipzig, 25–26 June 2005.

The paper below is a revised version of what he presented at the workshop.

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