| dc.creator |
PERES João Andrade |
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| dc.date |
2000 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-05-30T12:32:41Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-05-30T12:32:41Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-05-30 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502000000300007 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=01024450&date=2000&volume=16&issue=spe&spage=165 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/5267 |
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| dc.description |
The present paper focuses on the syntactic and semantic nature of the expressions identified in the literature as n-words (preferably, n-phrases), and on their licensing conditions. Concerning their status, arguments will be given in favor of Ladusaw's 1992 thesis that these are existential (and non-specific, it is claimed) indefinites. In a brief excursus, it will be shown that other constructs engage in the process known as "negative concord". In the final part, an attempt will be made to offer a systematic picture of the intra-- and cross-sentential licensing conditions of classical n-phrases. In this regard, the paramount importance of contextual decreasing monotonicity becomes apparent. |
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| dc.publisher |
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP |
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| dc.source |
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada |
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| dc.subject |
N-Words |
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| dc.subject |
Negative Concord |
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| dc.subject |
Indefinites |
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| dc.subject |
Decreasing Monotonicity |
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| dc.title |
On the nature and licensing conditions of n-phrases in Portuguese |
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