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French negative concord and discord

2018
Abstract Evidence that DN readings arise in solid NC languages more than previously thought (Déprez et al. 2015) underscore the importance of investigating the factors governing their emergence to deepen our understanding of Negative Concord.
Viviane Déprez, Jeremy Yeaton
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Negative concord in Quebec French

Probus, 2017
AbstractIt 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 addition to this purely formal licensing, there is a negative dependency relation between ...
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Negative Concord is syntactic agreement

2022
AbstractIn many languages, elements that can independently induce a semantic negation jointly yield only one semantic negation, a phenomenon known as Negative Concord (NC). Italian Non ha telefonato nessuno (Not has called nobody), for example, means ‘Nobody called’. The existence of NC leads to (at least) two questions: why is it that the two negative
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Types of Negative Concord systems

2022
AbstractThis chapter argues that the contrast between Strict and Non-strict NC languages lies in the fact that, in Strict NC languages, every overt negative element carries an uninterpretable negative feature [uNEG], and the only negative element carrying an interpretable negative feature [iNEG] is the abstract negative operator.
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Negative concord as feature sharing

2009
This paper takes up the long-standing questions on the nature of negative concord items (NCIs) in Southern Romance, with special reference to Italian. NCIs in Italian present two riddles for the theory of syntax and semantics, viz., the preverbal- postverbal asymmetry and the apparent semantic ambiguity.
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Double negatives, Negative Concord and metalinguistic negation

2002
Spanish nadie, nada…) do not find a unified account in any of the existing analyses of Negative Concord (NC): (i) their uses in the special context of denials and (ii) their incompatibility with factive environments. We suggest that the unifying property of these two apparently unrelated phenomena is the common sensitivity of these two environments ...
Alonso Ovalle, Luis, Guerzoni, Elena
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Negative Concord and language contact

Linguistic Variation
Abstract In this article we analyze how the Arbëresh variety spoken in Piana degli Albanesi, in Sicily, has changed its original strict Negative Concord system (as seen in Albanian) to a non-strict one under the influence of Sicilian and, more recently, Italian.
Jacopo Garzonio, Jessica Rita Messina
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Negative Concord in Early English

2017
Introduction The following three chapters examine the distribution of early English negative concord in diachronic corpus data. This chapter provides an overview of early English negative concord. Negative concord is not a homogenous phenomenon in early English – there is both diachronic and diatopic variation in the types of negative
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Negative Concord

2010
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Negative concord

Mongolian Journal of Foreign Languages and Culture, 2014
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