Russian Polarity-Sensitive Items #
@cite{haspelmath-1997}
Russian indefinite pronoun polarity items, typed by the categories from
Typology.PolarityItem.
- кто-либо (kto-libo): Weak NPI (questions, conditionals, indirect negation)
- никто (nikto): N-word, negative concord
- кто угодно (kto ugodno): Free choice item
кто-либо (kto-libo) — Weak NPI. Polarity-sensitive indefinite licensed in questions, conditionals, and indirect negation scope.
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никто (nikto) — N-word, negative concord. Requires clause-level negation: 'nikto ne prišël' (nobody NEG came).
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ничего (nichego) — Non-human N-word; obligatory negative concord. 'Ničego ne videl' (NEG saw nothing) = "(I) saw nothing".
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никогда (nikogda) — Temporal N-word; obligatory negative concord. 'Nikogda ne prixodil' (never NEG came) = "(He) never came".
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кто угодно (kto ugodno) — Free choice item. Universal-like: 'anyone at all'.
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The Russian polarity-item inventory: the Fragment-side joint listing every polarity item this fragment defines.
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