Monica-Mihaela Rizea’s and Manfred’s research on negative polarity items (NPI) has just appeared in a special issue of Linguisticae Investigationes on Interfaces in Romance: A constraint-based approach (edited by Gabriela Bîlbîie):

Rizea, Monica-Mihaela & Manfred Sailer. 2020. A constraint-based modeling of negative polarity items in result clause constructions in Romanian. Linguisticae Investigationes 43(1). 129–168. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/li.00042.riz

Monica and Manfred propose a constraint-based, representational rendering of pragmatic theories of NPI-licensing. This allows them to capture the occurrences of various types of NPIs in different types of result clause constructions in Romanian.

The paper is based on joint work during Monica’s research visits in Frankfurt and a joint conference paper at the International Conference on HPSG 2019.

References

Rizea, Monica Mihaela & Manfred Sailer. 2019. Representing scales: Degree result clauses and emphatic negative polarity items in Romanian. In: Müller, Stefan & Petya Osenova (Eds.). Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University of Bucharest. 79-99. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
URL: http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/HPSG/2019/hpsg2019-rizea-sailer.pdf

Rizea, Monica-Mihaela & Manfred Sailer. 2020. A constraint-based modeling of negative polarity items in result clause constructions in Romanian. Linguisticae Investigationes 43(1). 129–168. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/li.00042.riz