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This study claims that a French negated infinitive purpose clause "pour ne pas + INF" may be reinterpreted as a controlled subjunctive clause "pour ne pas que + SUBJ" when it conveys a non-responsibility situation (i.e. the situation the agent does not intentionally bring about). This hypothesis is supported by the fact that i) if and only if this construction denotes a non-responsibility situation, positive polarity indefinites (e.g. *quelqu’un* ‘someone’) in it may take narrow scope, which indicates that the superficially clause-mate negation is in fact interpreted clause-externally; ii) even with a non-responsibility situation, out-scoped positive polarity indefinites are not compatible with indefinite minimalizers (e.g. *(dire) un mot* ‘(say) a word’), which should be licensed by a clause-mate negation.
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