A Note on 'Zero' and Silent Negation
Richard Kayne, Andrea Moro
December 2022
 

The language faculty has chosen to have 'zero' accompanied by NOT. Why did it choose to do so? The most straightforward answer would seem to be that it had no choice. The only way to express what 'zero' expresses involves negation.
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