Cross-linguistically, the structural reflex of sentence-scope negation may be a free-standing adverb (German nicht, English not), a bound inflectional form (Japanese -na-, English -n't), or a verb (Finnish en, ei).[2] Where we do not find negation is in the one place propositional logic would lead us to look, sentence- or clause-peripheral position.
Mr. Aleynikov's conduct, she said, "deserves a significant sentence because the scope of his theft was audacious -- motivated solely by greed, and it was characterized by supreme disloyalty to his employer".
While the sentence within the scope of the story operator (here: "Pegasus is a flying horse") may be false when taken in isolation, the complete sentence may be true.
In particular, such a canonical notation will make explicit which quantifiers do occur in these sentences, what their scope is, and the like.
The Common Serjeant of London, Richard Marks QC, told Norman he had decided on an immediate custodial sentence because of the "scope and scale of the offending", but had reduced the term from 30 months to 20 after hearing that he was the sole carer for his sick wife.
On the reading that every has wide scope, the sentence is produced from every man and loves a woman.
There is a reading of this discourse on which both sentences in it are true even if there are no witches, so that 'a witch' in the first sentence must take narrow scope with respect to 'Hob thinks'.
Often, these sentences will expand on the narrow scope of the first sentence, placing the specific snapshot you present initially in some sort of larger context.
(13) and (14) seem to be ambiguous between a negation that scopes over the sentence as a whole and one that scopes under the determiner phrase and over the predicate (though see Strawson (1950) ).
Positioned at the end of a patent, claims are numbered sentences that define the scope of protection afforded by the patent.
The instructions, though only one sentence long, were epic in scope: "Please rate in the context of the full range of sensations that you have experienced in your life".
