N-Words and Negative Concord

The Blackwell Companion to Syntax

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 327-391

  Giannakidou, Anastasia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Existence; Negative absorption; Negative concord; Presupposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890986781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996591.ch45     Document Type: Chapter

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