The genesis of negative concord: Syntax and morphology of negative doubling

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 559-612

  Watanabe, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chains; Ellipsis; Feature copying; Indeterminates; Japanese; Minimizers; Negative concord; Negative doubling; Uninterpretable focus features

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844558097     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0024389042350497     Document Type: Article

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