Barrier constraints on negative concord in African-American English
Negative sentences with two negatives are subject to locality conditions that prohibit negative concord interpretations in some cases. This phenomenon appears to be universal, whether negative concord is a part of the grammar with (+NEG) lexical feature overtly manifested phonetically as a copied (+...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1998
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9841855 |