Autor:	Elena Herburger
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject Polarity item Ambiguity Semantics Romance Syntax Linguistics Terminology Philosophy of language Philosophy Negation Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Natural Language Semantics. 9:289-333
ISSN:	0925-854X
DOI:	10.1023/a:1014205526722
Popis:	This paper investigates Negative Concord, arguing that it results from a systematic lexical ambiguity: the items that participate in Negative Concord ("n-words" in Laka's 1990 terminology) are ambiguous between negative polarity items and their genuinely negative counterparts. I try to show that on empirical grounds the proposed account compares favorably with other analyses that shy away from ambiguity. I furthermore suggest that the ambiguity is not implausible conceptually because it can be viewed as reflecting an intermediate stage of the Jespersen Cycle. Negative Concord can be observed in many languages. The data discussed here are taken from Romance, primarily Spanish.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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