Lexical variation and Negative Concord in Traditional Dialects of British English

@article{Tubau2016LexicalVA,
  title={Lexical variation and Negative Concord in Traditional Dialects of British English},
  author={Susagna Tubau},
  journal={The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics},
  year={2016},
  volume={19},
  pages={143-177}
}
  • Susagna Tubau
  • Published 2016
  • History
  • The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
In the present paper I investigate, from a Minimalist perspective and using data from the Freiburg English Dialect corpus, the patterns of Negative Concord (NC) attested in different Traditional Dialects of British English. By arguing that lexical variation exists in the negative operator used to express sentential negation, which is truly semantic in Standard English but carries an interpretable negative feature in Traditional Dialects of British English, I explain why NC, understood as… Expand
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