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Negative concord in fragments: Reexamining the evidence against the negativity of negation markers

Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2024. Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 1–21.
Rudnev P.

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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Keywords: negationagreementnegative concordclausal ellipsisfragment answers
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