N-words and NPIs : Between syntax, semantics, and experiments
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2017 (7-9/12/2017, Nova Gorica) |
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| Web | https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/260 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3764845 |
| Keywords | n-words; negative polarity items; experiments; neg-raising; Czech |
| Description | In this paper I experimentally approach the following question: do strict negative concord languages like Czech employ two strategies (syntactic and semantic) to encode negative dependency between a verb and its argument(s) or not? And the answer is: beside the default syntactic strategy (n-words), there is a class of negative dependent expressions which are licensed by semantic rules. |
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