The main claim of this paper is that a general theory of negative concord (NC) should allow
for the possibility of NC involving scoping of a universal quantifier above negation. I propose …

2.2 N-words as indefinites 2.3 N-words and universal quantifiers 2.3. 1 Universal quantifiers
and n-words: parallelism in scope 2.3. 2 Negative concord as a universal scoping above …

Page 1 EXPRESSION AND INTERPRETATION OF NEGATION AN OT TYPOLOGY Page 2
studies in natural language and linguistic theory VoluME 77 Managing Editors Marcel den …

The possibility of expressing negation is a very basic property of human language. All
natural languages possess it. However, there is a certain amount of variation in the linguistic …

Catalan minimizers (expressions denoting some minimal quantity or extent) contain an overt
negative marker. When subject to a number of diagnostic tests, their behavior is totally …

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of
Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical …

Medieval Dutch is interesting to students of negation, as well as historical syntax, because it
underwent almost a full Jespersenian cycle of negation (cf. Jespersen 1917). Such cycles …

This dissertation is concerned with the syntactic and semantic status of negative indefinites
in Afrikaans. The problem posed by negative indefinites is that their interpretation appears to …

Negation and negative indefinites raise problems for the principle of compositionality of
meaning, because we find both double and single negation readings in natural language …

The topic of my paper is the syntax and the quantificational force of free-choice items (FCIs)
in Hungarian. FCIs such as any have been at the forefront of research interest in the past …