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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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A new approach to Negative Concord: Catalan as a case in point
Journal of Linguistics, 2023 In this paper, we revisit the phenomenon of Negative Concord focusing on the Strict vs. Non-Strict divide. With Catalan as a case in point, we show that Negative Concord Items (NCIs) are not negative quantifiers (NQs) or polarity items (PIs) but ...
Susagna Tubau +2 more
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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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Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor
Natural language & linguistic theory, 2022 This paper presents a novel account for the optionality of negative concord observed with neither...nor coordinations, in an otherwise strict negative concord language—Turkish. I argue that the apparently optional negative concord is a surface phenomenon
Paloma Jeretič
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Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2022 AAE is described as exhibiting negative concord, similar to other varieties of English, in which negation licenses c-commanded n-words as well as Negative Polarity Items (NPIs).
C. Hall, Taylor Jones
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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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Negative sensitive items in Turkish: Negative polarity or negative concord?
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2020 This paper is concerned with the nature of negative sensitive items such as hiçkimse ‘no one’ and asla ‘never’ in Turkish. It is well attested in previous studies that these negative sensitive elements require the obligatory presence of sentential negation or some other licensor in the structure.
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Language Dominance Affects Bilingual Performance and Processing Outcomes in Adulthood
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study examines the role of language dominance (LD) on linguistic competence outcomes in two types of early bilinguals: (i) child L2 learners of Catalan (L1 Spanish-L2 Catalan and, (ii) child Spanish L2 learners (L1 Catalan-L2 Spanish). Most child L2
Eloi Puig-Mayenco +6 more
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