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AbstractThe question arises whether there are PPIs that lack an NPI mirror image. This chapter discusses such PPIs, namely those with features encoding the illocutionary force of a speech act. The chapter shows that both the ban on TNIs that is attested in many languages and the ban on sole NMs in sentence-initial position in V-to-C languages can be explained once it is assumed, following Han (2001), that features encoding the illocutionary force of a speech act take scope from matrix C° and may not be outscoped by negation, essentially an instance of PPI-hood. Consequently, a morphosyntactically negative element can appear in a position in C° or Spec, CP only if it is semantically non-negative or if it can reconstruct to a lower position.
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