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Linglib.Fragments.Greek.StandardModern.PolarityItems

Greek polarity items #

Polarity items of Modern Greek typed by PolarityItem: para monon, literally 'but only', which with a negated clause renders English punctual until. It is a negative polarity item in the sense of Giannakidou's nonveridicality theory, licensed by negation and xoris 'without' and not by amfivalo 'I doubt' or a rhetorical question, by her 2002 paper's (36)–(42).

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para monon (παρά μόνον) 'but only' is licensed by negation and xoris 'without', as in i prigipisa dhen eftase para monon ta mesanixta 'the princess did not arrive until midnight'.

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