English Negative Concord, Negative Polar
✍ Frances Kathleen Blanchette
📂 Library
📅 2015
🏛 City University of New York
🌐 English
In Negative Concord (NC) sentences, single negative meanings are expressed by two or more negative words. English speakers that use NC also employ Double Negation (DN), where two negatives yield a logical affirmative. The same speakers also use Negative Polarity Item (NPI) constructions, where words