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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.
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A crosslinguistic perspective on n-words
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2007 The semantic status of so-called n-words in Negative Concord languages has been under considerable debate. This paper takes a new perspective on this problem by bringing Negative Concord together with two different phenomena that n-words give rise to in ...
Doris Penka
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Redundancy in ELF: A Corpus-Based Study on Negative and Modal Concord
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2021 English as a lingua franca (henceforth ELF) is a contact language that has attracted great attention due to its unique global role. Thus, numerous studies have been conducted to determine its characteristics, among which research on such processes as ...
Dorota Watkowska
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Negation And Negative Concord In Romance
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2002 This paper addresses the two interpretations that a combination ofnegative indefinites can get in concord languages like French:a concord reading, which amounts to a single negation, and a doublenegation reading. We develop an analysis within a polyadic framework,where a sequence of negative indefinites can be interpreted as aniteration of quantifiers ...
Swart, Henriëtte de, Sag, I.A.
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A bidirectional Optimality Theoretic analysis of multiple negative indefinites in Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2014 In the literature on negation, Afrikaans is generally categorised as a negative concord language. Unlike most other negative concord languages though, utterances containing multiple indefinites in the scope of negation are typically produced with a ...
Huddlestone, Kate, de Swart, Henriëtte
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Languages, 2023 In this paper I investigate the ne…ne construction in Turkish, illustrated by Ne Ali ne (de) Esra geldi ‘Neither Ali nor Esra arrived’. The meaning of the ne…ne construction roughly corresponds to the meaning of the neither…nor construction in English ...
Martina Gračanin-Yüksek
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Indefinites, negation and Jespersen's Cycle in the history of Low German [PDF]
, 2013 This paper offers a formal account of the diachronic changes in the interaction between indefinites in the scope of negation and the expression of sentential negation in the history of Low German.
Breitbarth, Anne
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Glossa, 2017 This paper integrates syntactic theory and variationist analysis in an investigation of the variation between English not-negation (I don’t have any money), no-negation (I have no money) and negative concord (I don’t have no money).
Claire Childs
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The European Union and policy coherence for development: reforms, results, resistance [PDF]
, 2015 This article discusses the trajectory of policy coherence for development (PCD) in the European Union (EU). In particular, it argues that the strong focus on institutional mechanisms, conceived as a way of overcoming different types of resistance, has ...
Carbone, Maurizio, Keijzer, Niels
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
Languages, 2022 This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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