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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-f5ff639b2cb448b0821fb5903d50202c2022-12-22T03:52:34ZcatUniversitat de LLeidaSintagma0214-91410214-91412015-12-0127724Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British EnglishSusagna Tubau0Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaIn 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.http://www.sintagma.udl.cat/export/sites/Sintagma/documents/articles_27/Tubau.pdfnegative concordneitherhardly(n)or nothing; syntactic agreement(n)or nothingsyntactic agreementtraditional dialects of British English |
| spellingShingle | Susagna Tubau Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British English Sintagma negative concord neither hardly (n)or nothing; syntactic agreement (n)or nothing syntactic agreement traditional dialects of British English |
| title | Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British English |
| title_full | Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British English |
| title_fullStr | Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British English |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British English |
| title_short | Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British English |
| title_sort | neither n or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of british english |
| topic | negative concord neither hardly (n)or nothing; syntactic agreement (n)or nothing syntactic agreement traditional dialects of British English |
| url | http://www.sintagma.udl.cat/export/sites/Sintagma/documents/articles_27/Tubau.pdf |
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