Camilleri, Maris & Sadler, Louisa: Negative Sensitive Indefinites in Maltese
This paper looks at sentential negation in Maltese and the syntactic behaviour
of a group of negative sensitive indefinite items in Maltese, for which existing
literature offers only a partial (and indeed partially incorrect)
characterisation. We focus on syntactic aspects of the interplay between
sentential negation and negative sensitive items, both negative concord and
negative polarity items. Our primary aim is to provide a solid description of
the somewhat complex facts and some formalisation of the syntactic aspects in
LFG, building on previous work on syntactic aspects of negation in that
framework.
December 22, 2022 |
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