∗NEG NEG

Chris Collins

doi:10.5334/gjgl.611

∗NEG NEG

Chris Collins

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Abstract

I argue that there is a grammatical (non-semantic) constraint in English that prohibits double negation, dubbed ∗NEG NEG. I adduce a range of structures to illustrate this constraint, and show that apparent counter-examples are not double negation.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	64
Journal	Glossa
Volume	3
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.611
State	Published - 2018

Keywords

Contrastive negation
Double negation
Negation
Stripping

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Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics

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