Neither, (n)or nothing and hardly in negative concord constructions in traditional dialects of British English

• Autores: Susagna Tubau Muntañá
• Localización: Sintagma: Revista de lingüística, ISSN 0214-9141, Vol. 27, 2015, págs. 7-24
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Neither, (n)or nothing i hardly en construccions de concordança negativa en els dialectes tradicionals de l'anglès britànic
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  • català

    En aquest article, investigo, dins d’un marc minimista, com es compon en anglès britànic no-estàndard la concordança negativa en construccions que contenen l’adverbi negatiu neither, l’extensor general (n)or nothing, i l’adverbi escalar hardly emprant dades del corpus Freiburg English Dialect. Sostinc que neither, (n)or nothing i hardly estableixen una relació de concordança sintàctica amb un altre element negatiu dins l’oració, cosa que resulta en la interpretació com a negació simple de la cadena formada per vàries expressions de la negació.

  • 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 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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