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In:Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011
Edited by Marie-Hélène Côté and Eric Mathieu
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 333] 2014
► pp. 199–212

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Degree quantification and scope in Puerto Rican Spanish

 | The Ohio State University
 | University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Published online: 17 December 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.333.14gut
The possibility of preposing a degree delimiter before a negative term is a well-known feature of Caribbean Spanish in general. We present a detailed empirical analysis of the Puerto Rican case and we show that this possibility is due to a combination of syntactic and semantic factors that pertain to the syntax and interpretation of degree restriction.
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