The final nie in Afrikaans negative sentences

'Nie sommer nie': Sociohistorical and formal comparative considerations in the rise and maintenance of the modern Afrikaans negation system

“…note 17). This idea is further pursued in the main text, where the proposal is that Pol may in fact represent a "shell" which can be 2009, 2012a) follows Oosthuizen (1998) in proposing that the very high left-peripheral position occupied by nie 2 is the head of a Polarity Phrase (PolP). This is illustrated in (29): (29) The key point here, as far as we are concerned, is that the very high structural position associated with nie 2 contrasts sharply with the much lower position associated with the NEG 2 elements in languages which have undergone JC.…”

Multiple n-words in Afrikaans

“…There are other descriptions of negation in Afrikaans, for example (Ponelis 1979(Ponelis , 1993, (De Stadler 1989) and (Donaldson 1993), however, these are very general and non-generative in nature. More recent contributions to this field include (Robbers 1992), (Oosthuizen 1998), (Molnárfi 2002(Molnárfi , 2004, (Bell 2004) and (Biberauer 2007). See also (Den Besten 1986) and (Roberge 2000) for discussions of the origin of negative concord in Afrikaans.…”

How (Not) to Elide Negation

“…Before we present our account of the Scope Generalization, we need to clarify three basic assumptions. First, we follow the bulk of the literature on negation in assuming that clauses contain (at least) two scopal positions dedicated to negation (see, among others, Lasnik , Robbers , Zanuttini , Oosthuizen , Van Kemenade , Barbiers , Cormack & Smith , Haegeman , Holmberg , Schwarz & Bhatt , Biberauer , Tubau , Van Craenenbroeck ). More specifically, the clause structure we adopt is the one in (57), with two Pol(arity)Ps, one dominating and one dominated by TP…”