15 February 2015

New Directions in Negation and Polarity

UMass was well-represented at a workshop on negation and polarity held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem February 8-10. UMass alumna Aynat Rubinstein presented a paper with Edit Doron on “Expletive negation in constituent unconditionals.” Masaaki Kamiya presented a paper jointly authored by Tom Roeper entitled “Neg-feature separation in DP/Nominalization.” And Vincent Homer also presented a talk, entitled "Remarks on Languages with No Negation."