An experimental investigation on Romanian polarity items
An experimental investigation on Romanian polarity items
Author(s): Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru, Alina Tigău, Mihaela ZamfirescuSubject(s): Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: polarity sensitivity; polarity items; “only”; negation; focus particle; quantification;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to investigate the landscape of the focus particle ‘only’ in Romanian given the fact that Romanian exhibits two such focus particles, one whose use is mainly limited to assertive contexts and another one which is restricted to contexts that make use of not–classical negation; and on the other hand to present the results we obtained in an experiment with native speakers of Romanian focusing on the speakers’ creativity manifested in the assessment of various contexts containing the two polarity items.
Journal: Creativity
- Issue Year: 1/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 163-179
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
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