Licensing negative polarity items in Russian event nominalizations

This paper addresses the issue of licensing negative polarity items in Russian nominalizations. Negation in nominalizations provides negative concord which licenses negative pronouns. Crucially, non-specific indefinite -nibud¶ pronouns, which are usually prohibited in negative concord environments, are available in negated nominalizations, too. In this paper I determine the position of NegP within Russian nominalizations and examine licensing conditions of polarity sensitive items in nominalizations. My analysis suggests that -nibud¶ pronouns are licensed in the scope of the nonveridical operator that is introduced above NegP.