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Licensing Negative Concord Items

A Unified Theory of Polarity Sensitivity, 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 ...
Ahmad Alqassas
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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;
A. Giannakidou
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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.
V. Déprez
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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
Fyodor Baykov
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Negative Concord and locality in Russian

Canadian Journal of Linguistics-revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 2023
This article addresses locality conditions on Negative Concord (NC) in Russian. We examine long-distance licensing of “negative” ni-pronouns in subject- and object-control infinitives.
E. Lyutikova, A. Gerasimova
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On the history of NPIs and Negative Concord

Canadian Journal of Linguistics-revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 2023
This article aims to better understand how Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) come into existence and how they change over time. It argues that an expression can become an NPI if its semantics makes it pragmatically useful in negative or downward entailing ...
Elena Herburger
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Nada, nadie: A Study of Negative Concord in L2 Spanish

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2022
Research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has studied negation in a wide variety of languages but has mainly focused on the acquisition of clause negation, or the negation of finite verbs in main clauses (Dimroth, Christine. 2008.
Aaron Yamada
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Negative Indefinites and Negative Concord

, 2020
Negative indefinites like nobody and nothing are traditionally analyzed as negative quantifier. This analysis faces a compositionally problem in languages exhibiting negative concord, where semantic negation is expressed by more than one ...
D. Penka
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Grammatical restructuring in L3 development: a longitudinal study of Negative Concord in L3 Spanish by Japanese–English bilinguals

Second Language Research
The present study aims to explore the extent to which linguistic experience in the transferred language modulates the rate of grammatical development in third language (L3) acquisition.
Eloi Puig-Mayenco, Maki Kubota, Yuya Naganawa, C. Merlo   +3 more
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