ConSOLE 26 2018 University College London

'Niti' - real negative coordination inside a strict Negative Concord language?

Jovana Gajic´

University of Göttingen

jovana.gajic@stud.uni-goettingen.de
Serbo-CroatianNegative Concorddisjunction

Abstract

There are two negative coordination constructions in Serbo-Croatian: ni...ni and niti...niti. The present paper focuses on the latter one, examining its syntactic distribution, as well as the place it occupies in the system of strict Negative Concord. A hypothesis that niti is an inherently negative coordination marker is explored, but closer scrutiny reveals it to be untenable. I show that niti...niti-coordination has to be analyzed as a semantically non-negative disjunction, as well as how it can fit into the system of Negative Concord.

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Jovana Gajic´ (2018). 'niti' - real negative coordination inside a strict negative concord language?. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 26, edited by Astrid van Alem, Anastasiia Ionova, Cora Pots, (pp. 1-19).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{gajic-niti-2018, title={'Niti' - real negative coordination inside a strict Negative Concord language?}, author={Jovana Gajic´}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 26}, year={2018}, pages={1-19}, editor={Astrid van Alem and Anastasiia Ionova and Cora Pots} }

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