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

• Published in: Glossa (London) Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21
• Main Author: Rudnev, Pavel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Ubiquity Press 24.06.2024
• Subjects: Ellipsis; Grammatical agreement; Negation; Quantifiers; Questions; Semantics

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 heads recoverable. This invali...