Negative polarity items in Slavic
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Chapter in a book |
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| Description | This chapter describes Slavic expressions dependent on negation. It summarizes three approaches to such expressions which appeared in the history of formal linguistic Slavistics. First, the syntactic analysis of negative dependent expressions (see Progovac 1994 a.o.) is discussed; next the semantic approach of Błaszczak (2001); and last, the pragmatic stance of Crnič (2011) is introduced. The chapter shows how Slavic data of this kind were important from the point of view of formal linguistics, and their description mirrored the changes in the general linguistic theories. |