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Article Dans Une Revue Lingvisticae investigationes : International Journal of Linguistics and Language Année : 2018

On negative indefinites in Gallo. Evidence for non-intrinsically negative (scalar) negation

Samantha Becerra-Zita
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Hamida Demirdache

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negation; negative concord; Negative Indefinites (NIs); Negative Polarity Items (NPIs); scalar negation; scalarityThis paper brings to bear primary fieldwork data from Gallo on negation and polarity related issues. We defend two correlated proposals. (i) The negative markers pas/pouint in Gallo are not inherently negative, but rather merely signal the presence of abstract semantic negation in their clause. (ii) In (at least) the Morbihan dialect of Gallo, the negative markers pas/pouint come in two variants: a plain and a scalar variant, both of which enter into a Negative Concord relation with abstract semantic negation. The scalar NPI variant corresponding to aoqhun across other Gallo dialects, or to aucun in Standard French, is pas/pouint aoqhun and it is the negator (minimizer) pas/pouint that provides the necessary scalarity component characteristic of N(P)Is (formally the scalar feature [+σ]) to the plain indefinite aoqhun . As a corollary, adapting Labelle & Espinal (2014) , the shift from indefinite to (N)PI involves transfer of a scalar feature from a minimizer to an indefinite.
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hal-04096287 , version 1 (12-05-2023)

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Samantha Becerra-Zita, Hamida Demirdache. On negative indefinites in Gallo. Evidence for non-intrinsically negative (scalar) negation. Lingvisticae investigationes : International Journal of Linguistics and Language, 2018, 41 (1), pp.111-128. ⟨10.1075/li.00015.bec⟩. ⟨hal-04096287⟩
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