Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British English
In this paper, I investigate, within a minimalist framework, how negative concord is composed in non-standard British English constructions containing the negative adverb neither, the general extender (n)or nothing, and the scalar adverb hardly using data from the Freiburg English Dialect corpus. I...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat de LLeida
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Sintagma |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sintagma.udl.cat/export/sites/Sintagma/documents/articles_27/Tubau.pdf |
| Summary: | In this paper, I investigate, within a minimalist framework, how negative concord is composed in non-standard British English constructions containing the negative adverb neither, the general extender (n)or nothing, and the scalar adverb hardly using data from the Freiburg English Dialect corpus. I argue that neither, (n)or nothing and hardly establish a relation of syntactic agreement with another negative element in the clause which results in a single-negation interpretation of the chain formed by several instances of negation. |
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| ISSN: | 0214-9141 0214-9141 |