Establishing the limits between Polarity Sensitivity, Negative Polarity and Negative Concord
Etxeberria, Urtzi (Centre de Recherche sur la Langue et les Textes Basques (França))
Espinal, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Tubau Muntaña, Susagna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Imprint:	De Gruyter Mouton, 2024
Description:	36 pàg.
Abstract:	In this paper, by focussing on the behaviour of polarity elements from a variety of languages from different language families (namely, Basque, Hindi, English, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, and Russian) we investigate the relationship between Polarity Sensitive Items (PSIs) and Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) on the one hand, and between PSIs and Negative Concord items (NCIs) on the other. Based on a number of contrasts that we find, we argue that: (i) if a language has PSIs it does not necessarily have NCIs; (ii) PSIs need to be distinguished from NPIs; (iii) NCIs emerge as a subtype of PSIs, not of NPIs; and (iv) all languages that show Negative Concord (NC) also have Polarity Sensitivity (PS), but the opposite does not hold. We thus postulate that PS is a general phenomenon across languages with Negative Polarity (NPol) and NC as possible subtypes of PS but independent among them, and argue against the standard hypothesis that NC is a special subtype of NPol.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad PID2020-112801GB-I00 Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad PGC2018-096380-B-100 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021-SGR-00787
Note:	Altres ajuts: ANR (grant ANR-17-CE27-11), and ANR-DFG (grant ANR-18-FRAL0006)
Note:	Published online by De Gruyter Mouton April 4, 2024
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Polarity Sensitivity ; Negative Polarity ; Negative Concord ; Polarity Sensitive Items ; Negative Polarity Items ; Negative Concord Items
Published in:	Linguistic Typology, ISSN 1613-415X

DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0083

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