[PDF][PDF] Demonic Negation, responsive ellipsis, and negative fragment answers in Modern Irish

N D'Antuono, A Anttila, C Condoravdi… - 40th West Coast …, 2024 - lingref.com
This paper is an analysis of negative fragment answers (NFAs) in Modern Irish. More
specifically, I will concentrate on a peculiar kind of NFAs, those derived from the emphatic …

[PDF][PDF] Jespersen gives and Jespersen takes Experimentally tracking the role of focus in the renewal of negation

G Magistro - 2023 - biblio.ugent.be
This thesis deals with the diachronic renewal of standard negation, a phenomenon
commonly known as Jespersen's cycle (also JC in this thesis). We adopt the notion of …

Once known, always known. Turn-final sai in North-East regional Italian

M Biasio, D Del Fante - Folia Linguistica, 2024 - degruyter.com
This paper focuses on the structural and functional properties of a positionally flexible verb-
based discourse marker, sai (lit.'you know'), which in its turn-final position is a conversational …

Contrarian Hardly and the Approximative Adverbs

PB Pellino - 2024 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation is about an adverbial which I have named “Contrarian” HARDLY. It is a
member of the family of approximative adverbs that includes: almost, barely, hardly, rarely …

Il ciclo di Jespersen nei dialetti veneti. Un'indagine sul'mica'.

A SACCHETTO - thesis.unipd.it
L'indagine, basata su una trentina di interviste a parlanti veneti di età compresa tra i 40 ei 65
anni, vuole analizzare la situazione della negazione in diverse varietà della regione …