2018
DOI: 10.15304/elg.ve1.3552
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Negative Indefinites in the history of Portuguese : the case of <em>nemigalha</em>

Abstract: This paper focuses on negative indefinites in Portuguese, paying particular attention to nemigalha, a negative indefinite that disappeared from the language around the 16 th century. We claim that nemigalha originates from the reanalysis of the negative particle nem and the minimizer migalha in an early stage of the language, starting as a weak negative polarity item and then becoming a strong negative polarity item, in the sense of Martins (1997Martins ( , 2000. It is well known that minimizers can grammatica… Show more

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