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The dynamics of negative concord [PDF]
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021 Concord describes a natural language phenomenon in which a single logical meaning is expressed syntactically on multiple lexical items. The canonical example is negative concord, in which multiple negative expressions are used, but a single negation is interpreted.
Jeremy Kuhn
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Negative Concord in Jamaican [PDF]
Ampersand, 2019 This study aims to account for some dimensions of the strictness and of what will be called the ‘range’ of Negative Concord in Jamaican (also ‘Jamaican Creole’ or ‘Patwa’) and in so doing to increase our typological understanding of Negative Concord. As to the strictness, parameters will be the position of the negative indefinite relative to the verb ...
Van der Auwera, Johan +1 more
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Nobody Doesn’t Like Negative Concord [PDF]
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021 AbstractLanguages vary with respect to whether sentences with two negative elements give rise to double negation or negative concord meanings. We explore an influential hypothesis about what governs this variation: namely, that whether a language exhibits double negation or negative concord is partly determined by the phonological and syntactic nature ...
Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson
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Connective negation and negative concord in Balto-Slavic
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 With negative indefinite pronouns the Balto-Slavic languages all exhibit strict negative concord. In this study we investigate how negative concord functions in a context in which a connective negator (‘neither ...
Johan van der Auwera +2 more
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Extending the typology: negative concord and connective negation in Persian
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 This paper aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord (as in English We don’t need no education) and connective negation (as in English neither … nor’) through an analysis of Persian.
Johan van der Auwera, Sepideh Koohkan
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On the typology of negative concord [PDF]
Studies in Language, 2016 This paper has three main points. First, contrary to what is often stated, negative concord is not all that frequent and certainly not the most frequent strategy to express single clausal negation in a clause with an indefinite noun phrase or adverbial in the scope of the negation. Second, the subtype of negative concord called ‘strict negative concord’
Van der Auwera, Johan +1 more
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Negation And Negative Concord In Romance
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2002 This paper addresses the two interpretations that a combination ofnegative indefinites can get in concord languages like French:a concord reading, which amounts to a single negation, and a doublenegation reading. We develop an analysis within a polyadic framework,where a sequence of negative indefinites can be interpreted as aniteration of quantifiers ...
Swart, Henriëtte de, Sag, I.A.
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Micro-syntactic variation in American English Negative Concord
Glossa, 2017 This paper presents a series of quantitative gradient acceptability judgment studies of English negative sentences. Adult native speakers of American English recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk were asked to rate sentences on a scale of 1 to 7 on the ...
Frances Blanchette
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Negative concord in Washo as negative agreement
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2019 Washo, a Native American isolate, displays negative concord morphology in the context of negation. Negative concord in Washo comes in the form of the morpheme -Na, which may be suffixed onto optionally many sentential elements in a single clause. Given the apparent lack of semantic contribution by this morpheme, I argue - building on accounts along the
Hanink, Emily A.
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Quantification and focus in Negative Concord [PDF]
Lingua, 2006 This paper provides evidence that Negative Concord in a single language can simultaneously realize two cross-linguistically available options along two parameters, which parameters are thereby shown to be available in typological terms independently of each other.
Balázs Surányi
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