On the status of NCIs : An experimental investigation on so-called Strict NC languages
Espinal, M. Teresa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Puig-Mayenco, Eloi (King's College London)
Etxeberria, Urtzi (Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques (IKER))
Tubau Muntaña, Susagna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	This paper investigates the status of Negative Concord Items (NCIs) in three so-called Strict Negative Concord (NC) languages (namely, Greek, Romanian, and Russian). An experimental study was designed to gather evidence concerning the speakers' acceptability and interpretation of sequences with argumental NCIs in subject, object, and both positions when dhen/nu/ne were not present. Our results show that NCIs are negative indefinites whose presence in a clausal domain is enough to assign a single negation reading to the whole sequence, thus arguing in support of the hypothesis that in NC structures the minimal semantic requirement to convey single negation is that one or more NCIs encoding a negative feature appear within a sentential domain. We argue that in these structures dhen/nu/ne are the instantiations of a negative feature [neg] disembodied from an indefinite negative NCI in order to obey a syntax-phonology interface constraint.
Note:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Note:	Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2023. First View
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Greek ; Interpretation ; Negative Concord Items ; Romanian ; Russian ; Strict Negative Concord languages ; (un)acceptability
Published in:	Journal of linguistics, Vol 60 Num 4 (2024) , p. 715-755, ISSN 1469-7742

DOI: 10.1017/S0022226723000221

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