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 negative polarity item, and on the other hand, it occurs in positive (epistemic modal) contexts. Adopting the framework in Chierchia (2006), I argue it can be integrated in a system of polarity-sensitive items under the label NPI/existential FC. The alternatives this lexical item triggers give rise to a domain widening implicature in negative polarity contexts and to an anti-exhaustiveness implicature in existential modal ones
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
A universal property of natural language is that every language is able to express negation, i.e., e...
International audienceIt has been recently argued (Szabolcsi 2004) that the distribution of positive...
International audienceIt has been recently argued (Szabolcsi 2004) that the distribution of positive...
International audienceThis paper investigates the parameters of variation in the area of semanticall...
International audienceThis paper investigates the parameters of variation in the area of semanticall...
International audienceThis paper investigates the parameters of variation in the area of semanticall...
International audienceThis paper contributes to the semantic typology of dependent indefinites, by a...
This paper discusses the development of expressions such as “who/God knows WH ” into negative degree...
This paper presents three electronic collections of polarity items: (i) negative polarity items in R...
For some thirty years negative polarity items (NPIs) have provided crucial evidence for linguistic t...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
A universal property of natural language is that every language is able to express negation, i.e., e...
International audienceIt has been recently argued (Szabolcsi 2004) that the distribution of positive...
International audienceIt has been recently argued (Szabolcsi 2004) that the distribution of positive...
International audienceThis paper investigates the parameters of variation in the area of semanticall...
International audienceThis paper investigates the parameters of variation in the area of semanticall...
International audienceThis paper investigates the parameters of variation in the area of semanticall...
International audienceThis paper contributes to the semantic typology of dependent indefinites, by a...
This paper discusses the development of expressions such as “who/God knows WH ” into negative degree...
This paper presents three electronic collections of polarity items: (i) negative polarity items in R...
For some thirty years negative polarity items (NPIs) have provided crucial evidence for linguistic t...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
There can be no doubt that the phenomenon of polarity, though usually the subject of syntactic and s...
A universal property of natural language is that every language is able to express negation, i.e., e...