ConSOLE 26 2018 • University College London

Never Not a Negative Concord Item: Expletive Negative Concord in West Germanic

Marten Stelling

West Germanic languagesNegative Concordexpletive negation

Abstract

Several West Germanic languages have systems of negative concord that are optional and show an unexpected word order. In this paper, I will argue that the reason for these phenomena is the fact that the negative marker involved in these concord systems is an instance of expletive negation.

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Marten Stelling (2018). never not a negative concord item: expletive negative concord in west germanic. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 26, edited by Astrid van Alem, Anastasiia Ionova, Cora Pots, (pp. 279-292).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{stelling-westgermanic-2018, title={Never Not a Negative Concord Item: Expletive Negative Concord in West Germanic}, author={Marten Stelling}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 26}, year={2018}, pages={279-292}, editor={Astrid van Alem and Anastasiia Ionova and Cora Pots} }

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