Clara Pinto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Clara Pinto is involved.
Article
2024 When never meant ever: The polarity item nunca in Old Portuguese Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
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