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Policy 10. 2014: The polarity item nunca in Old Portuguese Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
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In European Portuguese, nunca ‘never’ is traditionally classified as a temporal adverb and it can convey sentential negation on its own, therefore behaving as a strong negative polarity item (NPI). Nevertheless, in early stages of the language we find nunca with a non-negative interpretation, in… read more