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Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese

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, Nobuaki Nishioka, Shigeru Miyagawa   +2 more
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Negative Dependencies in Turkish

Languages
In this paper, we provide an overview of negative dependencies in Turkish. The first are elements such as hiçkimse, which sometimes seem to mean ‘anybody’ and sometimes ‘nobody’.
Beste Kamali, Hedde Zeijlstra
doaj   +1 more source

Negative concord in fragments: Reexamining the evidence against the negativity of negation markers

Glossa
I argue that particular restrictions on the recoverability of elided negation in fragment answers in negative-concord languages follow from the semantics of questions. Drawing parallels with other ellipsis phenomena, I also highlight the role of Agree in
Pavel Rudnev
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Intervention Obviation by Pied-piping in Turkish

Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
Even in wh-in-situ languages like Turkish, there are configurations where a wh-phrase fails to take scope in-situ above another scopal element (such as negative concord items). These configurations known as intervention configurations can be obviated via
Ömer DEMİROK
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Negative concord by phase: multiple downward agree and the parametrization of edge features

The Linguistic Review
We divorce Negative Concord (NC) among two or more n-items, which is invariably present in Romance languages, from the mutual exclusion or cooccurrence between clausal negation markers (CNMs) and other n-items.
M. R. Manzini, Diego Pescarini
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Negative concord in Washo as negative agreement

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2019
Washo, a Native American isolate, displays negative concord morphology in the context of negation. Negative concord in Washo comes in the form of the morpheme -Na, which may be suffixed onto optionally many sentential elements in a single clause.
Emily A. Hanink
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Negative concord as a marker of empty discourse referents

, 2019
Negative concord items are restricted to a narrow set of negative environments: roughly, those that are anti-additive or anti-veridical. These environments share the property that they prevent discourse referents from being introduced.
J. Kuhn
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Double Negation in a Negative Concord language: An experimental investigation

, 2015
This paper investigates the interpretation and processing of simple transitive Catalan sentences with multiple negative expressions experimentally.
V. Déprez, Susagna Tubau, A. Cheylus, M. Espinal   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ouk ´Ismen Oudén: Negative Concord and Negative Polarity in the History of Greek

, 2014
In Ancient Greek a single set of indefinite enclitic pronouns was used indifferently in both negative/affective environments (i.e. like negative polarity items (NPI)) and in positive ones (i.e. like positive polarity items (PPI)).
G. Horrocks
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Japanese Negative Polarity Items and Negative Concord

Japanese Negative Polarity Items and Negative Concord
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