Negative Concord without Agree
Insights from German, Dutch and English Child Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5901161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Imke Driemel (0000-0002-0548-4310, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author), Johannes Hein (0000-0002-3445-8197, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author), Cassandra Bill (0000-0003-0135-1745, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics), Aurore Gonzalez (0000-0001-8453-7136, University of Milano-Bicocca), Ivona Ilić (0000-0003-2288-0590, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Paloma Jeretič (0000-0003-4680-8577, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics), Astrid Van Alem (0000-0001-7350-9965, University of Potsdam) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 179 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages8030179 |
| OpenAlex | W4385279059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 103 |
Children acquiring a non-negative concord language like English or German have been found to consistently interpret sentences with two negative elements in a negative concord manner as conveying a single semantic negation. Corpus-based investigations for English and German show that children also produce sentences with two negative elements but only a single negation meaning. As any approach to negative concord and negative indefinites needs to account for both the typological variation and the child data, we revisit the three most current syntactic Agree-based analyses, as well as a movement-based approach and show that they either have difficulties with the child data or face challenges in the adult language variation or both. As a consequence, we develop a novel analysis of negative concord and negative indefinites which relies on purely morphological operations applying to hierarchical semantic representations within a version of the Meaning First architecture of grammar. We will argue that the typological variation between the main three different types of languages as well as the children's non adult-like behaviour fall out from this in a straightforward fashion while the downsides of the Agree- and the movement-based accounts are avoided
Face (sociological concept · German · Grammar · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Negation · Variation (astronomy · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |