RED 2017
Event
- Title:
- RED 2017
- When:
- Thu, 15. June 2017, 09:00 h - Fri, 16. June 2017, 15:00 h
- Where:
- Bologna, Italy
- Category:
- Talks
- Created by:
- Irene Franco
Description
N-words in Old Italian
I will present a (quantitative) study of some morphologically N(egative) words in Old Italian, and discuss their Negative Concord (NC) pattern. I will show that the apparent optionality of NC with some postverbal N-words correlate with a proliferation of NC with the same preverbal N-words, at a certain diachronic stage. I connect this behavior to the weak Negative Polarity Item (NPI) status that these N-words acquire during this period, which in turn is related to a change in the NPI licensing mechanism (cf. Chierchia 2006, 2013, Zeijlstra to app.) rather than to NC. (talk delivered by Irene Franco)
Contact information
- Name:
- Irene Franco
