Some Issues in Negation in Portuguese

Schwenter, Scott A.

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“…In fact, there is a candidate, namely a particular use of lá which in the literature is often referred to as a marker of meta-linguistic negation (cf. Martins 2014Martins , 2021Schwenter 2016). Although the detailed study of metalinguistic negation with lá within a multidimensional framework remains for future work, I develop the hypothesis in Section 3.3 that it represents just another pragmatic outcome of lá UC as discussed in the following.…”

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European Portuguese lá: Use-Conditional Meaning and Pragmaticalization

Müller

2024

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This study focusses on non-adverbial uses of lá in European Portuguese, whose exact meaning contribution still remains an open research question. Applying a multidimensional semantics framework, the central claim is that non-adverbial uses of lá represent use-conditional items. Passing the standard tests suggested in the literature, they thus do not contribute to the truth conditions of an utterance but specify particular use conditions. It is argued that they are felicitously used if a speaker wants to convey illocutionary modification, which pragmatically leads to mitigation or reinforcement effects. Diachronically, substantiated by historical data from the Corpus do Português, use-conditional lá is argued to be a product of a pragmaticalization process that led to so-called pragmatic fission at some point, i.e., to the polysemy of two synchronically available configurations of a truth-conditional and a use-conditional lá.

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Section: Two Semantic Configurations Of European Portuguese Lámentioning

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European Portuguese lá: Use-Conditional Meaning and Pragmaticalization

Müller

2024

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“…In contrast to Strict NC languages, Non-Strict ones are those that do not require the overt presence of a negative marker when the NCI occurs in preverbal position. This group includes Italian (Acquaviva 1997;Zanuttini 1997), Portuguese (Teixeira 2012;Schwenter 2016), and Spanish (Espinal 2000;Herburger 2001;Tubau 2008;Espinal & Tubau 2016), among many others.…”

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On the status of NCIs: An experimental investigation on so-called Strict NC languages

ESPINAL,

PUIG-MAYENCO,

ETXEBERRIA

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This paper investigates the status of Negative Concord Items (NCIs) in three so-called Strict Negative Concord (NC) languages (namely, Greek, Romanian, and Russian). An experimental study was designed to gather evidence concerning the speakers’ acceptability and interpretation of sequences with argumental NCIs in subject, object, and both positions when dhen/nu/ne were not present. Our results show that NCIs are negative indefinites whose presence in a clausal domain is enough to assign a single negation reading to the whole sequence, thus arguing in support of the hypothesis that in NC structures the minimal semantic requirement to convey single negation is that one or more NCIs encoding a negative feature appear within a sentential domain. We argue that in these structures dhen/nu/ne are the instantiations of a negative feature [neg] disembodied from an indefinite negative NCI in order to obey a syntax–phonology interface constraint.

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Negation in Palenquero

Schwegler

2018

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This study offers an up-to-date (synchronic) overview of Palenquero predicate negation, and seeks to explain how and why it has recently begun to undergo change, especially among the younger generations. Earlier descriptions (e.g., Dieck 2000, 2002, Schwegler 1991a, 1996a) revealed that Palenquero features a complex variable system in which the negative marker nu ‘not’ can be placed either before or after the verb, or both (embracing negation), as in: (1) nu + VERB, (2) nu + VERB + nu, and (3) VERB + nu. Scholars have been in general agreement that all three strategies express the same propositional content, but there has been dispute as to underlying causes for the variable selection between these strategies. Sections 1 and 2 of this article provide a fresh look at the issue, and defend the hypothesis (pace Schwegler 1991a but contra Dieck 2000, 2002) that subtle contextually-derived conditions rather than morphosyntactic considerations best explain the selection and felicity of a given negation strategy. This discussion in turn will help explain certain aspects of negative concord, including the behavior of Spanish-derived negative polarity items like Pal. nunka ‘never’, tampoko ‘(n)either’, and so forth.

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Some Issues in Negation in Portuguese

Cited by 3 publications

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European Portuguese lá: Use-Conditional Meaning and Pragmaticalization

European Portuguese lá: Use-Conditional Meaning and Pragmaticalization

On the status of NCIs: An experimental investigation on so-called Strict NC languages

Negation in Palenquero

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