Weak and strong NPIs: nobody and anybody in Albanian and Modern Greek
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This paper makes three claims. The first is that, although Albanian is a negative concord language similar to Modern Greek (Giannakidou 1993 & 1997), it interestingly exhibits two series of n-words like English and Germanic languages. This provides a set of novel data for the study of n-words, especially because one class of these n-words comprises of weak (Zwarts 1995) NPIs while the other one consists of strong (Zwarts 1995) NPIs.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014