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Quirky n-words in Polish. NPIs, negative quantifiers or neither?
Jablonska, Patrycja (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2003)The present paper investigates the contexts in which the so-called n-words - the items which are taken to be Negative Polarity Items in Slavic languages - unexpectedly occur without a licensing negation marker on the verb. This particular usage of n-words seems to point towards an ambiguous behaviour of the items in question: in an antimorphic contexts they are NPIs; otherwise they are negative ...