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From Latin to Modern Italian: Some Notes on Negation
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In: Languages; Volume 7; Issue 1; Pages: 46 (2022)
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This article aims at investigating some diachronic aspects of the Italian negative system, considering a time span ranging from Old Latin to Modern Italian. Most of the negative polarity phenomena populating the Modern Italian system are consequences of a crucial change that occurred in Old Latin: The Latin negative morpheme nōn (“not”), which initially displayed a maximal projection status, and became a syntactic (negative) head. This change caused the shift from a double negation system to a negative concord one, which affects many Romance languages (and their dialects). It also determines the availability of the expletive reading of negation in Italian, as well as in other Romance languages (ex. French), calling for a new generalization: only languages (and structures) displaying a negative head allow the expletive interpretation of negation, languages displaying a maximal projection status do not.
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double negation; Italian; Latin; negative concord; negative polarity items; Spec-to-head principle
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010046
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Polarity Items in Basque. Experimental evidence for their existential reading
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An analysis of negation-dependent times amwu-phrases in Korean, and its theoretical consequences ...
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Bae, Sooyoung. - : Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, 2020
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An analysis of negation-dependent times amwu-phrases in Korean, and its theoretical consequences
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Language Dominance Affects Bilingual Performance and Processing Outcomes in Adulthood
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Negative Indefinites in the history of Portuguese : the case of nemigalha
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In: Estudos de Linguistica Galega (2018) (2018)
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Negation in Bulgarian yes-no questions: Polarity items and negative concord ...
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Double Negation in a Negative Concord language: An experimental investigation
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In: ISSN: 0024-3841 ; Lingua ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01158576 ; Lingua, Elsevier, 2015, 163, pp.75-107. ⟨10.1016/j.lingua.2015.05.012⟩ (2015)
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The Licensing of Negative Sensitive Items in Jordanian Arabic
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Negation, focus, and negative concord in Japanese
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In: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics; Vol 28 (2008): Proceedings of the International Conference on East Asian Linguistics ; 1718-3510 ; 1705-8619 (2008)
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