Quirky n-words in Polish: NPIs, Negative Qantifiers or neither?
The present paper investigates the contexts in which the so-called n-words - the items which are taken to be Negative Polarity Items in Slavic languages - unexpectedly occur without a licensing negation marker on the verb. This particular usage of n-words seems to point towards an ambiguous beha...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2004-01-01
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Series: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/22 |