(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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MDPI AG
2022-02-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/1/30 |