Nobody Doesn't Like Negative Concord

Autor/inn/en	Maldonado, Mora; Culbertson, Jennifer
Titel	Nobody Doesn't Like Negative Concord
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50 (2021) 6, S.1401-1416 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Maldonado, Mora)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-021-09816-w
Schlagwörter	Language Acquisition; Morphemes; Sentence Structure; Artificial Languages; Linguistic Theory; Contrastive Linguistics; Second Language Learning; English; Native Speakers; Form Classes (Languages) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Morphem; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Linguistische Theorie; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English language; Englisch; Muttersprachler; Analytischer Sprachbau
Abstract	Languages vary with respect to whether sentences with two negative elements give rise to double negation or negative concord meanings. We explore an influential hypothesis about what governs this variation: namely, that whether a language exhibits double negation or negative concord is partly determined by the phonological and syntactic nature of its negative marker (Zeijlstra 2004; Jespersen 1917). For example, one version of this hypothesis argues that languages with affixal negation must be negative concord (Zeijlstra 2008). We use an artificial language learning experiment to investigate whether English speakers are sensitive to the status of the negative marker when learning double negation and negative concord languages. Our findings fail to provide evidence supporting this hypothesised connection. Instead, our results suggest that learners find it easier to learn negative concord languages compared to double negation languages independently of whether the negative marker is an adverb or an affix. This is in line with evidence from natural language acquisition (Thornton et al. 2016). (As Provided).
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