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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/5267| Title: | On the nature and licensing conditions of n-phrases in Portuguese |
| Keywords: | N-Words Negative Concord Indefinites Decreasing Monotonicity |
| Issue Date: | 30-May-2013 |
| Publisher: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP |
| Description: | The present paper focuses on the syntactic and semantic nature of the expressions identified in the literature as n-words (preferably, n-phrases), and on their licensing conditions. Concerning their status, arguments will be given in favor of Ladusaw's 1992 thesis that these are existential (and non-specific, it is claimed) indefinites. In a brief excursus, it will be shown that other constructs engage in the process known as "negative concord". In the final part, an attempt will be made to offer a systematic picture of the intra-- and cross-sentential licensing conditions of classical n-phrases. In this regard, the paramount importance of contextual decreasing monotonicity becomes apparent. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/5267 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502000000300007 http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=01024450&date=2000&volume=16&issue=spe&spage=165 |
| Appears in Collections: | Languages and Literatures |
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