| Title: | Double negatives, Negative Concord and metalinguistic negation |
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| Authors: | ID Alonso Ovalle, Luis (Author)
ID Guerzoni, Elena (Author) |
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown |
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| Typology: | 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica
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| Abstract: | Spanish nadie, nada…) do not find a unified account in any of the existing analyses of
Negative Concord (NC): (i) their uses in the special context of denials and (ii) their
incompatibility with factive environments. We suggest that the unifying property of these
two apparently unrelated phenomena is the common sensitivity of these two
environments (denials and factives) to non-truthconditional aspects of meaning. Thereof
we take these properties to reveal that the meaning of n-words involves a nontruthconditional component. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that n-words are
existential quantifiers at the truth-conditional level but that they contribute negative
existentials at the level of their conventional implicatures. This hypothesis explains the
special uses of n-words in denials and their incompatibility with factive environments.
The fact that they are restricted to the scope of negation (or more precisely averidical
expressions
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(Giannakidou’s 1997,2000)) in non-sentence-initial position follows as a
consequence of the relation between their implicature and their semantic contribution to
the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in. Under certain common additional
stipulations, this view can be extended to preverbal occurrences as well. |
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| Keywords: | negative concord, Italian, Spanish |
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| Year of publishing: | 2002 |
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| Number of pages: | Str. 15-30 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUNG-8871 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 186296323 |
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| UDC: | 81 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:T0H5VL5W |
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| Publication date in RUNG: | 21.02.2024 |
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