| Autor: |
Janina Radó, Frank Richter |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
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| Zdroj: |
Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing ISBN: 9783030015626 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-01563-3_7 |
| Popis: |
We present experimental findings that support the hypothesis that the licensing requirements of negative polarity items (NPIs) pattern with well-formedness conditions on frozen syntactic-semantic features of idiomatic expressions. When multiword NPIs that require a strong negation as their licenser are accompanied by a weaker type of negative licenser instead, they are perceived as degraded by native speakers the same way as violations of morphosyntactic co-occurrence requirements in the idiomatic multiword component of these NPIs. Such a violation occurs for example when a certain noun phrase in argument position is in plural form instead of singular, or when an obligatory lexical element is replaced by a synonym. Subsuming idiomatic phrases under the more general category of (not necessarily idiomatic) collocationally restricted complex expressions, we take our results as evidence for a theory of NPIs which interprets their licensing in syntactically delimited negative environments as an instance of satisfying the well-formedness constraints of a collocation that comprises a semantic restriction. The lexically variable negation component of NPIs is interpreted as an abstract semantic co-occurrence requirement of a complex collocation. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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