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Negative concord in Washo as negative agreement [PDF]
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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Negative Concord in Russian [PDF]
, 2019 <div> <p>In this article I will describe the general properties of Negative Concord in Russian, which is a strict Negative Concord language, where all negative indefinites must co-occur with sentential negation. However, there are several cases where the negation marker can be absent (like in fragment answers) or can appear in a non ...
Jacopo Garzonio, Garzonio, Jacopo
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Negative concord in Romanian [PDF]
, 2004 The phenomenon of negative concord has received much attention in the literature, especially from the perspective of Romance languages. This study contributes to the ongoing debate by presenting and analyzing novel data from Romanian. Romanian negative concord differs from all types of negative concord previously described.
Teodorescu, Viorica Alexandra
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Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2000 The main claim of this paper is that a general theory of negative concord (NC) should allow for the possibility of NC involving scoping of a universal quantifier above negation. I propose that Greek NC instantiates this option. Greek n-words will be analyzed as polarity sensitive universal quantifiers which need negation in order to be licensed, but ...
Giannakidou, A
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Micro-syntactic variation in American English Negative Concord [PDF]
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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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.
van Kampen, N.J. +3 more
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Quirky negative concord: Croatian, Spanish and French ni’s [PDF]
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
van der Auwera, Johan
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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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The Loss of Negative Concord with Negative PPs [PDF]
, 2021 Middle English loses the negative particle 'ne' in its function as a sentential negator as well as in negative concord structures. This paper measures 'ne'-drop in both contexts with quantitative data from three syntactically parsed Middle English corpora.
Zimmermann, Richard; id_orcid
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The Negative Concord Mystery: Insights from a Language Model [PDF]
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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