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On Subject & Negative Positioning in Spanish

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Negative English sentences (‘Mary does not want apples’) suggest that the order of key elements is TP–NegP–VP.  However, negative Spanish sentences (‘María no quiere manzanas’) suggest the order Subject–NegP–Tense/VP.
Nicholas Sobin, Natalia Mazzaro
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The negative concord illusion: An acceptability study with Czech neg-words

open access: yesLinguistics Vanguard
Languages such as Czech exhibit negative concord} a requirement for any neg-word (e.g. 'nobody') in a clause to be accompanied by sentential negation. Theoretical treatments see it as either a case of syntactic agreement or subsume it under NPI licensing. Interestingly, in the processing of both agreement and NPIs, the inclusion of a distractor element
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A closer look at Negative Concord in Afrikaans

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2007
Biberauer, Theresa
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Metalinguistic negation in Jordanian Arabic: Clause-initial miš/mū as a high objection operator

open access: yesGlossa
This paper argues that clause-initial miš/mū in Jordanian Arabic (JA) instantiates a dedicated objectional/metalinguisticoperator, distinct from truth-functional negation ma…-š.
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Concordância negativa em português e a sue evolução

open access: yesÉtudes romanes de Brno, 2013
The Sentential negation, and the negative concord in particular, is a complex phenomenon which is far from being diachronically invariable. We could observe on the example of Portuguese that the main reason for the diachronic variation in the field of ...
Metoděj Polášek
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Negative concord and TAM: a new perspective

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It has been proposed in the syntactic literature on Negative Concord(NC) that Negative Concord Item(s) (NCIs) move to a particular position in syntax,i.e. SpecNegP (Haegeman 1995, Zanuttini 1997), to give rise to concord. SpecNegPis also the position for (some) Standard Negators (SN).
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Japanese Negative Polarity Items and Negative Concord.

open access: yesJapanese Negative Polarity Items and Negative Concord
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Masahito Kawamori, Akira Ikeya
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Labeling and Negative Concord

open access: yesLabeling and Negative Concord
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