Negative Heads and the Neg Criterion

Haegeman, Liliane; Zanuttini, Raffaella

doi:10.1515/tlir.1991.8.2-4.233

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“…This in turn gives rise to doubts regarding the trigger for optional NegS. These issues are connected to the question of how negative concord is to be analyzed, which cannot be discussed here (see Haegeman 1995, Haegeman & Zanuttini 1991, 1996, Zeijlstra 2004, and Giannakidou 2005 on this issue). Summing up, this section showed that there is cross-linguistic and diachronic variation as to the distribution of negative objects.…”

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Microvariation in object positions: Negative Shift in Scandinavian

Engels¹

2011

Nord J Linguist

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In the Scandinavian languages, sentential negation must be licensed outside VP, necessitating leftward movement of negative objects, Negative Shift (NegS). While string-vacuous NegS is possible in all Scandinavian varieties, there is a fair amount of cross-linguistic variation as to non-string-vacuous NegS. In particular, the varieties contrast in which constituents can be crossed by NegS and whether or not crossing of a certain constituent requires the presence of an intervening verb.The paper discusses which difficulties for syntactic analysis arise from the variation as to the applicability of NegS and why other movement operations do not display such a range of variation.

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Microvariation in object positions: Negative Shift in Scandinavian

Engels¹

2011

Nord J Linguist

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“…Here I limit myself to empirical criticisms, leaving aside conceptual issues. On Puskás' account, Hungarian n -words are essentially universal quantifiers prefixed by logical negation (¬∀x), following Zanuttini (1991), Haegeman & Zanuttini (1991), Haegeman (1995), and a substantial body of work stemming from these. On this view, NC arises as a result of the absorption of several negative operators, by the analogue of Wh-absorption (Higginbotham andMay 1981, May 1985).…”

Section: Are Hungarian N-words Negative?mentioning

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Quantification and focus in Negative Concord

Surányi

2006

Lingua

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“…Finally, in a third group (see e.g. Zanuttini 1991 or Haegeman andZanuttini 1991), n-words are always treated as NQ's whose negative value can be canceled. In the present section, focusing on Portuguese data, I will aim at showing that the indefinite theory of n-phrases, besides offering a general and economic account of the constructions at stake, explains a larger number of facts than other theories.…”

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confidence: 99%