(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, gaire 'much, many' is a PI, pas 'at all' is an NPI with enriched m...

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Autores: Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253, Llop Naya, Ares|||0000-0003-4365-4947
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Negative concord items
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Benasquese
Occitan
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spelling (Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance LanguagesEspinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253Llop Naya, Ares|||0000-0003-4365-4947Polarity itemsNegative polarity itemsNegative concord itemsCatalanAragoneseBenasqueseOccitanThis 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, gaire 'much, many' is a PI, pas 'at all' is an NPI with enriched meanings and indefinites such as ningú 'anybody, n-body' come in two sets, as both PIs and NCIs. It further shows that in the trans-Pyrenean Romance varieties studied here, a distinction must be made between indefinite pronouns such as dengún 'anyone, n-one' and scalar minimizers such as gota (lit. drop), which come in parallel PI and NCI sets, whereas NPIs such as brenca (lit. crumb) have developed an enriched meaning. This paper reveals the different status of pas across Catalan and other trans-Pyrenean Romance varieties either as an NPI at stage II of Jespersen's cycle, which further constrains conventional implicatures, or as a negative operator. 22022-01-0120222022-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/255221https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/languages7010030reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2552212026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv (Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
title (Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
spellingShingle (Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253
Polarity items
Negative polarity items
Negative concord items
Catalan
Aragonese
Benasquese
Occitan
title_short (Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
title_full (Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
title_fullStr (Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
title_full_unstemmed (Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
title_sort (Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253
Llop Naya, Ares|||0000-0003-4365-4947
author Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253
author_facet Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253
Llop Naya, Ares|||0000-0003-4365-4947
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author2 Llop Naya, Ares|||0000-0003-4365-4947
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Polarity items
Negative polarity items
Negative concord items
Catalan
Aragonese
Benasquese
Occitan
topic Polarity items
Negative polarity items
Negative concord items
Catalan
Aragonese
Benasquese
Occitan
description 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, gaire 'much, many' is a PI, pas 'at all' is an NPI with enriched meanings and indefinites such as ningú 'anybody, n-body' come in two sets, as both PIs and NCIs. It further shows that in the trans-Pyrenean Romance varieties studied here, a distinction must be made between indefinite pronouns such as dengún 'anyone, n-one' and scalar minimizers such as gota (lit. drop), which come in parallel PI and NCI sets, whereas NPIs such as brenca (lit. crumb) have developed an enriched meaning. This paper reveals the different status of pas across Catalan and other trans-Pyrenean Romance varieties either as an NPI at stage II of Jespersen's cycle, which further constrains conventional implicatures, or as a negative operator.
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