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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"negative concord"”.
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(Negative) concord and head directionality in Western Armenian
This thesis focuses on concord structures found in Western Armenian. I label a structure as concord if two morphemes found in the same clause bear the same feature, yet only result in one semantic interpretation of that feature. The main focus of the thesis is that of negative concord in Western …
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Negation in Turaif Arabic: Not the last word.
… syntax of sentential and constituent negation, negative coordination, and negative sensitive items. I additionally deal with issues related to neg raising predicates and universal quantification. Building on previous syntactic accounts of negation in LFG, I treat sentential negative particles mā …
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A grammar of negation in Tonga.
… study examined incorporation, productivity of negative markers across the noun class system, the necessity of the negative marker ‘ta’ within a statement and the negative concord. Secondary and Primary sources were employed in data collection. The study employed a qualitative approach and the …
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Aspects of morphology and syntax of negation in Greek sign language
… Manual negation includes three features: negative particles such as NO or NOT, negation signs which usually have meanings like nobody, nothin& never, and finally signs with negative incorporation (verbs that incorporate negation). Non-manual features comprise of negation head movements and …
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Word Order in Övdalian : A Study in Variation and Change.
This dissertation discusses aspects of the syntax of Övdalian, a variety spoken by ca. 2,500 people in the province of Dalecarlia in Sweden. Initially, an overview of the history and current status of the language of Älvdalen is given, and the focus of the dissertation is on certain syntactic …