4. N-Words As Quantificational Or Nonquantificational Elements (On the Nature of N-Words in Polish *‪)‬

4.1. Arguments in Favor of the Nonquantificational View I will start the discussion about the quantificational versus nonquantificational nature of n-words in Polish by pointing out one very interesting fact concerning the availability of quantificational meaning for n-words in general. It has been mentioned in section 2.2 that n-words in Polish, unlike, e.g., n-words in Italian or Spanish (recall examples (5) and (6) in section 1), independently of their position and function in the clause, in order to be grammatical require the presence of the sentential negation marker nie. (21) Actually, there are in fact a few cases in which n-words occur without clausemate negation; cf. (25) and (26).