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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 ...
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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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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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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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Licensing Negative Concord Items
2021This chapter discusses the syntactic configurations and processes that are involved in licensing the various types of NCIs (negative concord items) in Arabic. The author argues for a revised syntactic agreement approach. In this way, the chapter explains the behavior of Arabic NCIs with extra mechanisms (positing an abstract negative operator) to ...
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Negative Concord and the Nature of Negative Concord Items
2020AbstractThis 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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Linguistic Variation, 2013
This paper argues that Negative Concord is generated by the grammars of all English varieties, but just not “realized” in the standardized variety, in the sense of Barbiers (2005, 2009). I show that Double Negation constructions, wherein two negative elements yield a doubly negated meaning, are formed identically by English varieties that realize ...
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This paper argues that Negative Concord is generated by the grammars of all English varieties, but just not “realized” in the standardized variety, in the sense of Barbiers (2005, 2009). I show that Double Negation constructions, wherein two negative elements yield a doubly negated meaning, are formed identically by English varieties that realize ...
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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.
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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.
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Negative Concord in West Flemish
1996Abstract In this paper we will be looking at the phenomenon of negative concord. After a general description of the data of negative concord in Romance languages we will concentrate on its properties in one Germanic language, West Flemish (a Belgian dialect of Dutch).
Liliane Haegeman, Raffaella Zanuttini
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