LEADER 03968nam 2200457 450 001 9910793351803321 005 20200106145013.0 010 $a90-272-6315-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000007188591 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5622432 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007188591 100 $a20190113d20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aNegation and negative concord $ethe view from Creoles /$fedited by Viviane De?prez, Fabiola Henri 210 1$aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia :$cJohn Benjamins Publishing Company,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (339 pages) 225 1 $aContact language library ;$vVolume 55 311 $a90-272-0192-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNegation and negative concord: the view from Creoles / Viviane De?prez and Fabiola Henri -- I. French related Creoles: Sentential negation and negative words in Guadeloupean Creole / Simon Petitjean and Emmanuel Schang -- What is negative? Negative Concord Items, constituent, sentential and expletive negation in Haitian Creole / Viviane De?prez -- A lexicalist account of negation and negative concord in Mauritian / Fabiola Henri -- II. English related Creoles: Negation in Pichi (Equatorial Guinea): The case for areal convergence / Kofi Yakpo -- Licensing negation and negative concord in Atlantic creoles: The case of Vincentian / Paula Prescod -- Negation in Singapore English / Luwen Cao and Zhiming Bao -- III. Portuguese related Creoles: Negation in Cape Verdean Creole: A parametric account / Marlyse Baptista and Emanuel Correia de Pina -- Elements of denial in Capeverdean: The negator ka and the properties of n-words / Fernanda Pratas -- Negation in Korlai Indo-Portuguese / J. Clancy Clements / Negation and negative concord in Guinea-Bissau Kriyol (in comparison with Portuguese, substrate-adstrate languages and other Portuguese Creoles) / Alain Kihm -- IV. Other lexifier: Negation in Palenquero: Syntax, pragmatics, and change in progress / Armin Schwegler -- Cross-linguistic negation contrasts in co-convergent contact languages / Peter Slomanson -- Conclusions / Viviane De?prez and Fabiola Henri. 330 $aWhile universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ?double negation?, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction ? problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts ? has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers. 410 0$aContact language library ;$vVolume 55.$x2542-7059 606 $aCreole dialects$xNegatives 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xNegatives 615 0$aCreole dialects$xNegatives. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xNegatives. 676 $a417/.22 702 $aDe?prez$b Viviane M. 702 $aHenri$b Fabiola 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793351803321 996 $aNegation and negative concord$93702353 997 $aUNINA