Negation and Negative Concord in Georgian Sign Language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Negation is a topic that has received considerable attention ever since the early days of sign language linguistics; also, it is one of the grammatical domains that has given the impetus for sign language typology.
Roland Pfau +2 more
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Nominal and pronominal negative concord, through the lens of Belizean and Jamaican Creole
Linguistics, 2022 The article aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord through a comparative analysis of nominal and pronominal negative concord in Jamaican and Belizean Creole, based on the translations of the New Testament.
van der Auwera Johan
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Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch and English Child Language
Languages, 2023 Children acquiring a non-negative concord language like English or German have been found to consistently interpret sentences with two negative elements in a negative concord manner as conveying a single semantic negation. Corpus-based investigations for
Imke Driemel +6 more
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Asymmetries in the Acceptability and Felicity of English Negative Dependencies: Where Negative Concord and Negative Polarity (Do Not) Overlap [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Negative Concord (NC) constructions such as the news anchor didn’t warn nobody about the floods (meaning “the news anchor warned nobody”), in which two syntactic negations contribute a single semantic one, are stigmatized in English, while their Negative
Frances Blanchette, Cynthia Lukyanenko
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Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord
Linguistic TypologyIn this paper, by focussing on the behaviour of polarity elements from a variety of languages from different language families (namely, Basque, Hindi, English, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, and Russian) we investigate the relationship between polarity
Etxeberria Urtzi +2 more
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Is Negation Negative? (And a Discussion of Negative Concord in SOV Languages)
LanguagesIs negation negative? For some authors, in some languages, it is not. This is the case for so-called strict negative concord languages (e.g., Russian), in which negation is taken to be non-negative, following the cross-linguistic analysis for negative ...
Paloma Jeretič
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The Negative Concord Mystery: Insights from a Language Model
InformationAn important recent development in the field of linguistics is the use of small language models to investigate language acquisition. Following this line of research, we investigate the mysterious appearance of ‘negative concord’ (e.g., I didn’t do ...
William O’Grady +2 more
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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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Nominalization in Persian: Evidence for low negation
Glossa, 2022 This paper uses a novel argument based on nominalization to argue for a low structural position for negation in Persian. This proposal is advanced in two stages.
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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