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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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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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Quirky negative concord: Croatian, Spanish and French ni’s
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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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
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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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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Negation and Negative Concord in Georgian Sign Language
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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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]
, 2012 It is claimed in van Kemenade (2000: 62) that clauses with initial negative constituents are a context in which subject–verb inversion occurs throughout the history of English.
Wallage, Phillip
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Explaining Variability in Negative Concord [PDF]
, 2020 Cheshire’s (1982) seminal study of Reading adolescents revealed robust use of negative concord, a ubiquitous ‘vernacular universal’ of English varieties worldwide.
Jennifer Smith +3 more
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Expletive negation and related problems
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 This paper makes two main claims: the presence of two or more negative elements in Negative Concord, Negative Comparison, and Expletive Negation basically rests upon the pragmatic need of intensifying the negative import of the sentence.
Paolo Ramat
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