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Two negations for the price of one
Glossa, 2016 Standard English is typically described as a double negation language. In double negation languages, each negative marker contributes independent semantic force. Two negations in the same clause usually cancel each other out, resulting in an affirmative
Anna Notley +3 more
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A linguistic study of English double negation and its realization in Arabic
Studies in English Language and Education, 2022 The studies on multiple negation have been conducted intensively in linguistics, but very few studies have focused on multiple negation in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Sahar Abdulsalam Alshargabi +2 more
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La concordanza negativa nel volgare veneto delle Origini
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 In this paper I analyse the variation displayed by Old Venetan texts regarding Negative Concord with preverbal items. Venetian displays strict Negative Concord, while Paduan and Veronese have mandatory preverbal negation only with negative adverbs and ...
Jacopo Garzonio
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A Quantitative Approach to Microvariation: Negative Marking in Central Romance
Languages, 2022 This work presents an exploratory data analysis of the syntactic distribution of pre- and postverbal negation (N1 and N2) in a corpus of data gathered from two linguistic atlases, the Linguistic Atlas of France (ALF) and the Italo-Swiss Atlas (AIS ...
Diego Pescarini
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A Corpus-Based Typology of Negation Strategies in Turkish Sign Language
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 This paper investigates the distribution of negation strategies in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) in the light of frequency-based data from a naturalistic TİD Corpus.
Bahtiyar MAKAROĞLU
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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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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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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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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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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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