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Negative Concord: A Hundred Years On / ed. by Johan van der Auwera, Chiara Gianollo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 385Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2024]Copyright date: 2025Description: 1 online resource (VI, 346 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111200866
  • 9783111202983
  • 9783111202273
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: General theoretical issues -- Negative concord: the first 133 years -- Negindefinites and negative concord: concepts, terms and analyses -- Negative concord and TAM: a new perspective -- Non-strict negative concord: a correlate of focus movement? -- The universal force of (strict) negative concord -- N-words: in defence of wide scope. A view from Romanian -- Section 2: Perspectives on variation -- Negative concord in Medieval Greek: lexical asymmetry and the role of correlative negation -- What does the linear position of negative concord items tell us about their properties? -- Grammar or error? Non-compositional (expletive/paratactic) negation in Dutch sentences with zonder ‘without’ -- Two negatives in Tyneside English questions: negative concord or double negation? -- Less formal and more rebellious — An experiment on the social meaning of negative concord in American English -- Subject index -- Language index -- Name index
Summary: The concept of ‘negative concord’ refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You ain’t seen nothing yet. This book takes stock of what has been achieved since the notion was introduced in 1922 by Otto Jespersen and sets the agenda for future research, with an eye towards increased cross-fertilization between theoretical perspectives and methodological tools. Major issues include (i) How can formal and typological approaches complement each other in uncovering and accounting for cross-linguistic variation? (ii) How can corpus work steer theoretical analyses? (iii) What is the contribution of diachronic research to the theoretical debates?
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: General theoretical issues -- Negative concord: the first 133 years -- Negindefinites and negative concord: concepts, terms and analyses -- Negative concord and TAM: a new perspective -- Non-strict negative concord: a correlate of focus movement? -- The universal force of (strict) negative concord -- N-words: in defence of wide scope. A view from Romanian -- Section 2: Perspectives on variation -- Negative concord in Medieval Greek: lexical asymmetry and the role of correlative negation -- What does the linear position of negative concord items tell us about their properties? -- Grammar or error? Non-compositional (expletive/paratactic) negation in Dutch sentences with zonder ‘without’ -- Two negatives in Tyneside English questions: negative concord or double negation? -- Less formal and more rebellious — An experiment on the social meaning of negative concord in American English -- Subject index -- Language index -- Name index

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The concept of ‘negative concord’ refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You ain’t seen nothing yet. This book takes stock of what has been achieved since the notion was introduced in 1922 by Otto Jespersen and sets the agenda for future research, with an eye towards increased cross-fertilization between theoretical perspectives and methodological tools. Major issues include (i) How can formal and typological approaches complement each other in uncovering and accounting for cross-linguistic variation? (ii) How can corpus work steer theoretical analyses? (iii) What is the contribution of diachronic research to the theoretical debates?

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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