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Polarity Items in Basque. Experimental evidence for their existential reading
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In: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03506632 ; Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2021, ⟨10.1007/s11049-021-09513-2⟩ (2021)
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Polarity Items in Basque. Experimental evidence for their existential reading
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This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation that looks into the acceptability and interpretation judgements that Basque native speakers give to sentences with multiple i-/bat ere indefinites in declarative sentences. It is argued that Basque i-/bat ere indefinites are Polarity Items (PIs) rather than Negative Concord Items (NCIs), as they are consistently associated with an existential reading in unacceptable declarative sentences without an overt negative licensor. That is, Basque i-/bat ere indefinites never give rise to a negative interpretation in the absence of an overt negative marker. It is also argued that Basque PIs differ from NCIs in Strict Negative Concord languages such as Greek in relevant ways, thus reinforcing the conclusion that Basque is not a NC language. This study contributes to a better understanding of the conditions that an indefinite expression must meet to be classified as a PI or as an NCI.
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Acceptability judgement task; Basque; Existential reading; Negative concord items; Picture selection task; Polarity items
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URL: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/240117
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Editorial : What Are (Un)Acceptability and (Un)Grammaticality? How Do They Relate to One Another and to Interpretation?
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Relating (Un)acceptability to Interpretation. Experimental Investigations on Negation
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Language dominance affects bilingual performance and processing outcomes in adulthood
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Language Dominance Affects Bilingual Performance and Processing Outcomes in Adulthood
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The Lexical Category of Adjective : Challenging the Traditional Notion
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Language Dominance Affects Bilingual Performance and Processing Outcomes in Adulthood
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Language dominance affects early bilingual performance and processing outcomes in adulthood
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A Minimalist Analysis of Negative Concord in Northern Peninsular Spanish
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African American Vernacular English : a representation of a non-mainstream variety of English in Kathryn Stockett's The Help
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A Study on Conversion : Morphology-Syntax Boundary and Category Underspecification
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Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British English.
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In: Sintagma: revista de lingüística; 2015: Vol.: 27; p. 7-24 (2016)
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Double Negation in a Negative Concord language: An experimental investigation
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In: ISSN: 0024-3841 ; Lingua ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01158576 ; Lingua, Elsevier, 2015, 163, pp.75-107. ⟨10.1016/j.lingua.2015.05.012⟩ (2015)
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Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
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Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
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