Islands of Contradiction: Presuppositional and Negative Islands

This paper reports some results of my MIT Ph.D. dissertation: Special thanks to my thesis advisor Danny Fox, and my thesis committee: Gennaro Chierchia, Irene Heim, David Pesetsky, as well as to Benjamin Spector, to whom I owe the crucial suggestion to use the interval based semantics for degrees in the context of negative degree islands. Thanks also to Emmanuel Chemla, Jon Gajewski, Roni Katzir, Giorgio Magri and Anna Szabolcsi as well as to Vincent Homer, Nathan Klinedinst, Winfried Lechner, Oystein Nilsen and Philippe Schlenker, and the audiences at SALT 18, ZAS Berlin and the EGG Summerschool in Debrecen for many helpful comments, questions and suggestions. I would like to acknowledge financial support by the European Science Foundation (Euryi project on presupposition, to P. Schlenker) and Collegium Budapest. All remaining errors are my own.

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