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A register approach to negative concord versus negative polarity items in English
LinguisticsNegative concord (NC) is used in many English varieties but usually considered ungrammatical in ‘standard’ contemporary English, where negative polarity items (NPIs) are used.
Rotter Stephanie, Liu Mingya
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Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese [PDF]
Glossa, 2016 We take up three Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Japanese, Wh-MO plain negative indefinites, exceptive XP-sika, and certain minimizing indefinites, such as rokuna N (‘any decent N’).
Hedde Zeijlstra +2 more
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
Languages, 2022 This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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From Latin to Modern Italian: Some Notes on Negation
Languages, 2022 This article aims at investigating some diachronic aspects of the Italian negative system, considering a time span ranging from Old Latin to Modern Italian.
Matteo Greco
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When ni- and -nibud’ are logically equivalent: Evidence from Russian nominalizations [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2020 This paper deals with the two sets of polarity sensitive items in Russian: ni- and -nibud’ pronouns. Non-specific indefinite -nibud’ pronouns (NSIs) are possible only in propositions that do not ensure truth, i.e. non-veridical contexts.
A. Gerasimova
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Living on the Edge. On Bare and Non-Bare NCIs across Italo-Romance
Languages, 2023 This article describes and discusses some properties of the distribution of Negative Concord Items (NCIs) in the Italo-Romance domain, taking into account both varieties of Italian and varieties of other Italo-Romance languages.
Jacopo Garzonio, Cecilia Poletto
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Absence of Clausal Islands in Shupamem
Languages, 2023 Decades-long research on islands has led to the conclusion that island constraints are candidates for language universals. A recent surge in research on islandhood in African languages has revealed some would-be island configurations that are transparent
Hagay Schurr +6 more
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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]
, 2012 It is claimed in van Kemenade (2000: 62) that clauses with initial negative constituents are a context in which subject–verb inversion occurs throughout the history of English.
Chomsky +16 more
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La concordanza negativa nel volgare veneto delle Origini
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 In this paper I analyse the variation displayed by Old Venetan texts regarding Negative Concord with preverbal items. Venetian displays strict Negative Concord, while Paduan and Veronese have mandatory preverbal negation only with negative adverbs and ...
Jacopo Garzonio
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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2016 Intensification, a general device used by speakers to convey their message more clearly and to strengthen their position to it (Bolinger 1972), has been discussed widely in the literature.
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
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