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A linguistic study of English double negation and its realization in Arabic
Studies in English Language and Education, 2022 The studies on multiple negation have been conducted intensively in linguistics, but very few studies have focused on multiple negation in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Sahar Abdulsalam Alshargabi +2 more
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Two negations for the price of one
Glossa, 2016 Standard English is typically described as a double negation language. In double negation languages, each negative marker contributes independent semantic force. Two negations in the same clause usually cancel each other out, resulting in an affirmative
Anna Notley +3 more
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La concordanza negativa nel volgare veneto delle Origini
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 In this paper I analyse the variation displayed by Old Venetan texts regarding Negative Concord with preverbal items. Venetian displays strict Negative Concord, while Paduan and Veronese have mandatory preverbal negation only with negative adverbs and ...
Jacopo Garzonio
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Jezikoslovlje, 2021 This paper explores the interaction between connective negation (‘neither ... nor’) and negative concord, an issue that has not received much attention. It looks at different ‘negative concord’ languages, viz. Croatian, Spanish, and French. The approach is synchronic; the data come from existing descriptions and from native speaker judgments. The paper
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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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A Quantitative Approach to Microvariation: Negative Marking in Central Romance
Languages, 2022 This work presents an exploratory data analysis of the syntactic distribution of pre- and postverbal negation (N1 and N2) in a corpus of data gathered from two linguistic atlases, the Linguistic Atlas of France (ALF) and the Italo-Swiss Atlas (AIS ...
Diego Pescarini
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A Corpus-Based Typology of Negation Strategies in Turkish Sign Language
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 This paper investigates the distribution of negation strategies in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) in the light of frequency-based data from a naturalistic TİD Corpus.
Bahtiyar MAKAROĞLU
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ACQUISITION PREFERENCES FOR NEGATIVE CONCORD [PDF]
The Evolution of Language, 2010 Negated sentences in Dutch child language are analyzed. It is argued that, rather than an innate UG structure, the child's acquisition procedure explains a temporary rise and fall of negative concord. It is further suggested that natural preferences of the acquisition procedure are a substantive source for grammatical universals.
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A crosslinguistic perspective on n-words
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2007 The semantic status of so-called n-words in Negative Concord languages has been under considerable debate. This paper takes a new perspective on this problem by bringing Negative Concord together with two different phenomena that n-words give rise to in ...
Doris Penka
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Redundancy in ELF: A Corpus-Based Study on Negative and Modal Concord
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2021 English as a lingua franca (henceforth ELF) is a contact language that has attracted great attention due to its unique global role. Thus, numerous studies have been conducted to determine its characteristics, among which research on such processes as ...
Dorota Watkowska
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