On the semantic status of n-words in Catalan and Spanish

This paper provides some arguments for the claim that Catalan and Spanish n-words are not lexically ambiguous. I put forward the hypothesis that Catalan and Spanish nwords are negative expressions and numeral weak quantifiers. I suggest the relevance of a hierarchy of negative items (negative quantifiers, minimizers, nwords, and polarity items), determined by the position of these items within a scale of quantificational force.