(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages

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, <i>gaire</i> ‘much, many’ is a PI, <i>pas</i> ‘at all’ is an N...

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Main Authors: M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-02-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/1/30