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Japanese Negative Polarity Items and Negative Concord

Negative polarity items (NPIs) are a class of expressions whose distribution is restricted to affective contexts, especially to the negative context (Kato (1985)). Examples of the expressions traditionally counted as Japanese negative polarity items are: kessite ('ever'), nannimo ('anything'), daremo (`anyone'), dokomo (`anywhere'), tittomo (`not at all'), and sika ('only') (Ikeya and Kawamori ...

Negative Concord and the Distribution of Quantifiers

Negative Concord vs. Negative Polarity and the Acquisition of Japanese

The goal of this paper is to argue that negative concord is the “default value” for the two types of neg-sensitivity by investigating how Japanese children acquire NCIs in their language. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In section 2, we review several syntactic differences between NPIs and NCIs and a morphosyntactic analysis of those items proposed by Kuno (2007). It is pointed ...

Expletive Negation, Negative Concord and Feature Checking*

The aim of this paper is to explore some aspects of the syntax-semantics interface representations which correspond to expletive negation (EN) and negative concord (NC). I shall postulate that a syntactic operation of logical absorption, conceived as feature checking, is needed in the theory of grammar in order to account for both phenomena. EN instantiates a nonnegative context; it will be cha...

negative concord item in azeri turkic

in this research azeri negative sentences are scrutinized with a focus on negative concord item (nci) s. linguists such asenç (1998), kornfilt (1997) and progovac (2005) assert that turkish and azeri lack negative concord item but we put forward a claim in the contrary. our purpose is to prove the existence of nci in azeri turkic. this paper includes an introduction to negative markers and spec...