Negative Concord in English

Bibliographic Data

ID4567796
AuthorsFrances Blanchette (0000-0002-7012-9825, The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume13
Issue1
Pages1-47
Publication date2013-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Variation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lv.13.1.01bla
OpenAlexW1992415679
LanguageEN
Citations received51

This paper argues that Negative Concord is generated by the grammars of all English varieties, but just not "realized" in the standardized variety, in the sense of Barbiers (2005, 2009). I show that Double Negation constructions, wherein two negative elements yield a doubly negated meaning, are formed identically by English varieties that realize Negative Concord and those that do not. Unlike previous Minimalist Agree approaches to English Negative Concord, this proposal accounts for the fact that English varieties generate both Double Negation and Negative Concord constructions. This paper employs Tortora's (2009, in press) mechanism of feature spreading, and López's (2009) derivational assignment of the pragmatic feature [contrast], to successfully capture the facts of Negative Concord and Double Negation in English. In so doing, it contributes insight into the representation of sentential negation, and supports the Barbiersian notion that not all grammatical structures are realized in a given variety

Linguistics · Natural language processing · Negation · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub