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A register approach to negative concord versus negative polarity items in English

Linguistics
Negative concord (NC) is used in many English varieties but usually considered ungrammatical in ‘standard’ contemporary English, where negative polarity items (NPIs) are used.
Rotter Stephanie, Liu Mingya
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Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect. [PDF]

Nat Lang Linguist Theory
This paper provides new evidence that syntactic principles that are proposed to explain the (un)grammaticality of a sentence can also hold in sociolinguistic variation.
Liang Y, Amsili P, Burnett H.
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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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Spanish Negative Concord Items: Experimental Evidence for Their Status as Strict Negative Polarity Items

International Journal of Language and Literary Studies
This study investigates the semantic status of Spanish Negative Concord Items (NCIs) through their comparison with English Negative Quantifiers (NQs) and Polarity Items (PIs) in acceptability judgment tasks conducted among native speakers of Spanish and English.
D. Vergara
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Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord

Linguistic Typology
In this paper, by focussing on the behaviour of polarity elements from a variety of languages from different language families (namely, Basque, Hindi, English, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, and Russian) we investigate the relationship between polarity
Etxeberria Urtzi, Espinal M.Teresa, Tubau Susagna   +2 more
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Asymmetries in the Acceptability and Felicity of English Negative Dependencies: Where Negative Concord and Negative Polarity (Do Not) Overlap

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Negative Concord (NC) constructions such as the news anchor didn’t warn nobody about the floods (meaning “the news anchor warned nobody”), in which two syntactic negations contribute a single semantic one, are stigmatized in English, while their Negative
Frances Blanchette, Cynthia Lukyanenko
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Negation in Bulgarian yes-no questions: Polarity items and negative concord

Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 2017
The paper addresses negation and Negative Concord in Bulgarian polar questions focusing on the distribution of the polarity items and the way they interact with the interrogative clitic li. Assuming that li functions as both interrogative and focus operator, I will observe a contrast in the licensing of Positive (PPIs) and Negative (NPIs) Polarity ...
Margaret Dimitrova
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Micro-syntactic variation in American English Negative Concord

Glossa, 2017
This paper presents a series of quantitative gradient acceptability judgment studies of English negative sentences. Adult native speakers of American English recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk were asked to rate sentences on a scale of 1 to 7 on the ...
Frances Blanchette
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On Different Types of Negative Concord Items and Their Interpretation in Korean

Studies in Linguistics, 2020
Juhyeon Hwang
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From Latin to Modern Italian: Some Notes on Negation

Languages, 2022
This article aims at investigating some diachronic aspects of the Italian negative system, considering a time span ranging from Old Latin to Modern Italian.
Matteo Greco
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