2006
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Jean-Emmanuel Tyvaert, « La nécessité logique et la contingence linguistique des expressions polarisées », Langages, ID : 10.3406/lgge.2006.2697
Jean-Emmanuel Tyvaert: Logical necessity and linguistic contingency in polarity expressions A comparison is proposed between the peculiar behaviour of statements containing négative polarity items and the minimal logie (nontraditional logie) négation operator. Under this approach, the habituai filiation of statement validation (where the négative statement " cornes after" a positive one by applying a négation operator to the positive statement) becomes inverted and turns into an uncommon filiation, where the négative statement cornes first and the positive statement (i. e. the opposite version of the négative statement) cornes later, including no logical operator. Statements containing négative polarity items can't be validated compositionally (i. e. as the positive version is not available, it can't be used to calculate the value of the négative statement). They need to be validated directly through their linguistic sensé, their status of " figures" being thus capital to perform this step. In our perspective, far from being peculiar éléments of utterances statements containing négative polarity items are in fact necessaiy formulations of natural languages appearing in highly varied forms. They are an essential part to achieve a rational approach to négative statements as a whole.