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N-words, expletive negation and negative concord in Catalan and Spanish| old_uid | 155 |
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| title | N-words, expletive negation and negative concord in Catalan and Spanish |
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| start_date | 2005/11/07 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | In this talk I’ll focus on crosslinguistic variations on differing EN and NC licensing in Catalan and Spanish, and I’ll argue that they are motivated by differences in the formal features and the semantic status of negative items, mainly n-words (Espinal 2000). Furthermore, following Déprez (1997, 2000), I’ll show that the fact that Catalan is more symmetric than Spanish with regard to the robust subject / object NC asymmetry found in many Romance languages, and with regard to the ability to license NPI both in the restrictor and in the scope of an antiveridical / nonveridical operator is due to differences in their DP structures. |
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| responsibles | Nash |
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