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Negative concord in Romanian

open access: yes, 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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Negative concord in Russian Sign Language

open access: yesNatural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2022
International audienceIn this paper, we provide the first systematic description of negative concord in Russian Sign Language (RSL). Although non-manual markers have been argued to participate in negative concord in sign languages, negative concord ...
Jeremy Kuhn, Elena Pasalskaya
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Negative concord in Quebec French

open access: yesProbus, 2017
It is argued that there are two types of asymmetric negative concord languages: in languages like Spanish and Italian, negative concord results from a purely formal agreement relation between the negation and a negative concord item. In Quebec French, in
Marie Labelle
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Negative ... Concord?

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 ...
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Negation and negative concord

2018
While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly ...
Viviane Déprez, Fabiola Henri
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Negative Concord and the Nature of Negative Concord Items

2020
AbstractThis chapter discusses the expressions often referred to as n-words. While this term has been used extensively in the literature, we use here the more neutral term ‘negative concord items’ (NCI) since these expressions do not always contain negation. NCIs behave largely as negative polarity items (NPIs) in requiring negation for grammaticality;
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