Unembedded 'Negative' Quantifiers

摘要

Unembedded 'negative' quantifiers, which are isolated in conversation initial position, provide evidence for the debate between the direct interpretation analysis of an isolated quantifier and the ellipsis analysis. In fact, unembedding of a Greek 'negative' quantifier KANENAS supports the former, while unembedding of a Russian 'negative' quantifier ni-kogo supports the latter.