Negative concord in fragments

Rudnev, Pavel. 2024. “Negative concord in fragments: Reëxamining the evidence against the negativity of negation markers.” Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1): 1–21.

doi:10.16995/glossa.10441

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I argue that particular restrictions on the recoverability of elided negation in fragment answers in negative-concord languages follow from the semantics of questions. Drawing parallels with other ellipsis phenomena, I also highlight the role of Agree in making certain elided heads recoverable. This invalidates a major argument against the analysis of negative-concord items as universal quantifiers scoping above negation.

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