Is there any negative polarity in Romanian?
Is there any negative polarity in Romanian?
Author(s): Anamaria FălăuşSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: negative polarity; existential free choice; implicature calculation; domain widening
Summary/Abstract: I discuss the distribution and interpretation of the Romanian determiner vreun and analyze it as a special polarity item. I put forth the generalizations that capture its peculiar distribution: on the one hand, vreun has the behavior of a typical polarity item, and on the other hand, it occurs in positive (epistemic modal) contexts.
Journal: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-21
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English