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Negative Indefinite Constructions in Bantu: ‘Nobody’
LanguagesThis paper presents a first typology of negative indefinites in Bantu languages. The lack of interest in expressions of ‘nobody’ in Bantu languages is connected with the idea that they merely involve a generic noun for ‘person’ and main clause negation ...
Maud Devos +2 more
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On the syntactically complex status of negative indefinites [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2011 Negative Indefinites (NIs) in languages such as Dutch and German may give rise to split-scope readings. Sentences like German Du must keine Krawatte anziehen (‘you must wear no tie’) have a reading where the modal takes scope in between the negation and the indefinite.
Hedde Zeijlstra
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A bidirectional Optimality Theoretic analysis of multiple negative indefinites in Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2014 In the literature on negation, Afrikaans is generally categorised as a negative concord language. Unlike most other negative concord languages though, utterances containing multiple indefinites in the scope of negation are typically produced with a ...
Huddlestone, Kate, de Swart, Henriëtte
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Negative Features on Negative Indefinites: Evidence from Split Scope [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2012 The assumption that negative indenites are semantically non-negative elements associating with sentential negation has proven fruitful to account for the behaviour of negative indenites in languages exhibiting negative concord. Under this view, negative indenites carry a negative feature that has to be licensed by a semantic negation.
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Extending the typology: negative concord and connective negation in Persian
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 This paper aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord (as in English We don’t need no education) and connective negation (as in English neither … nor’) through an analysis of Persian.
Johan van der Auwera, Sepideh Koohkan
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Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch and English Child Language
Languages, 2023 Children acquiring a non-negative concord language like English or German have been found to consistently interpret sentences with two negative elements in a negative concord manner as conveying a single semantic negation. Corpus-based investigations for
Imke Driemel +6 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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Voice and Modal Verbs in Estonian; 173-186 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 The interaction of voice and modal verbs in Estonian confirms the impersonal nature of the basic voice opposition in Estonian and clarifies the constraints on impersonalization.
Reeli Torn-Leesik
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ENGLISH INDEFINITE PRONOUN ANY AND ITS SERBIAN TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS
Filolog, 2023 This study aims to analyse a contrastive relation between the English indefinite pronoun any and its Serbian equivalents. Beside the simple pronoun any, the study also focuses on how its compounds with other words – nouns (-body, -thing), numerals (-one)
Irena M. Pantić
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Negation and indefinites in Late Latin
Pallas, 2016 In this paper I investigate the interplay between sentential negation and indefinites in some Late Latin texts (since the 3rd century AD), with the aim of tracing back to this stage later developments affecting the early Romance languages.
Chiara Gianollo
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