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What is negative in Haitian Creole? Negative Concord Items, sentential, constituent and expletive negation

Contact Language Library, 2018
Abstract Negative sentences in Creole languages, provocatively claimed to be the world ‘simplest languages’ (Mc Whorter 2001), commonly present a puzzling multiplicity of redundant negative expressions with a single negative interpretation that appear to systematically violate logical compositionality.
Viviane Deprez
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Licensing Negative Concord Items

2021
This chapter discusses the syntactic configurations and processes that are involved in licensing the various types of NCIs (negative concord items) in Arabic. The author argues for a revised syntactic agreement approach. In this way, the chapter explains the behavior of Arabic NCIs with extra mechanisms (positing an abstract negative operator) to ...
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Negative Concord and the Nature of Negative Concord Items

2020
AbstractThis chapter discusses the expressions often referred to as n-words. While this term has been used extensively in the literature, we use here the more neutral term ‘negative concord items’ (NCI) since these expressions do not always contain negation. NCIs behave largely as negative polarity items (NPIs) in requiring negation for grammaticality;
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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 ...
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What does the linear position of negative concord items tell us about their properties?

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Negative concord items inside adjective phrases in Russian: An experimental study

Вопросы языкознания / Voprosy Jazykoznanija
The article presents the results of a syntactic experiment aimed at identifying the conditions necessary for licensing of negative pronouns embedded in an adjective phrase (AdjP) by sentential negation ( ‘The trainer was not content with anybody of the sportsmen’). The experimental results demonstrate that such licensing is possible if the adjective is
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“Nobody” isn’t in time

Abstract The paper presents novel findings on young children’s processing of Negative Concord Items (NCIs) in Italian in preverbal position. This is a syntactic environment in which their interpretation is equivalent to the English Negative pronouns “Nobody/Nothing”.
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The dynamics of negative concord

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021
Jeremy Kuhn
exaly  

"Nobody" isn't in time: on-line processing of Negative Concord Items in Italian and its implications for the delay of Double Negation readings in young children

2023
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Negative concord in Russian Sign Language

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2022
Jeremy Kuhn, Elena Pasalskaya
exaly