Negation and Negative Concord : The View from Creoles.

Intro -- Negation and Negative Concord -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Introduction. Negation and negative concord: The view from creoles -- Chapters in the book -- 1. French related creoles -- 2. Portuguese related creoles -- 3. English related creoles -- 4. Other lexifier -- References -- Part I. French related Creoles -- Sentential negation and negative words in Guadeloupean Creole -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Description and distribution of GC n-words -- 2.1 Preverbal pa as sentential negation -- 2.2 Janmè -- 2.3 Anyen -- 2.4 Pon N -- 3. Negative concord and locality -- 4. The framework -- 4.1 A quick introduction to tree-adjoining grammar -- 4.2 Formal account of the GC negation -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- What is negative? Negative Concord Items, constituent, sentential and expletive negation in Haitian Creole -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Abstract negation and negative concord -- 1.2 Properties of Haitian Creole NCI -- 2. Properties of the Haitian Creole sentential marker 'pa' -- 2.1 Constituent negation in HC -- 2.2 Expletive negation in HC -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- A lexicalist account of negation and negative concord in Mauritian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Propositional negation in Mauritian -- 2.1 Clitic properties of Mauritian negation -- 2.2 Pa and nepli as a negative quantifiers -- 2.3 Jespersen's cycle? -- 3. NCIs in Mauritian -- 3.1 Negative concord in Mauritian -- 3.2 Double negation -- 3.3 NCIs as negative quantifiers -- 4. A polyadic approach to Mauritian negative concord within HPSG -- 4.1 The syntax of propositional negation -- 4.2 Negative concord -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II. English related Creoles -- Negation in Pichi (Equatorial Guinea): The case for areal convergence.

1. Introduction -- 2. Formal and typological aspects of negation in Pichi -- 3. Verb negation: Regular and suppletive forms and patterns -- 4. Copula negation: A functional overlap with pragmatic structures -- 5. Negative concord: Lexifier and substrate convergence? -- 6. Is there something specifically 'Creole' about Pichi negation? -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Licensing negation and negative concord in Atlantic creoles: The case of Vincentian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sentential negation -- 2.1 Sentential negation in English -- 2.2 Sentential negation in the English-based Creoles -- 3. Negative concord -- 3.1 Negative concord in the West African varieties -- 3.2 Negative concord in the South American varieties -- 3.3 Negative concord in the Caribbean varieties -- 3.4 Summary of findings for the Atlantic creoles -- 4. Types of negative concord -- 4.1 Evidence from Vincentian creole -- 4.2 Complementary observations -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Negation in Singapore English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Negation: An overview -- 3. Multiple negation and negative concord -- 4. Negation and quantification -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Part III. Portuguese related Creoles -- Negation in Cape Verdean Creole: A parametric account -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework: Longobardi (2014) -- 3. A parametric account of negation in CVC -- 3.1 The negative marker in ST -- 3.2 On the behavior of N-words in CVC -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Elements of denial in Capeverdean: The negator ka and the properties of n-words -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Capeverdean n-words are weak NPIs -- 2.1 The distribution of ningen 'no.one' and nada 'nothing' -- 2.2 Capeverdean n-words do not have an intrinsic negative meaning -- 3. Capeverdean n-words are universal quantifiers.

3.1 Capeverdean n-words are licensed locally and may be modified by almost -- 3.2 Capeverdean ningen has an inherent operator status -- 4. The status of the adverbs nunka and tioxi -- 5. Final remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Negation in Korlai Indo-Portuguese -- 1. The formation of the Korlai village and language -- 2. Negation in Korlai -- 3. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Negation and negative concord in Guinea-Bissau Kriyol (in comparison with Portuguese, substrate-adstrate languages and other Portuguese Creoles) -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Description -- 2. Negation and NC in Kriyol -- 3. Negation and NC in (European) Portuguese -- 4. Negation and NC in in Mandinka, Manjaku, and Wolof -- Part II. Formalizing and comparing data -- 5. A linear approach to NC in Portuguese and Kriyol -- 6. Conclusion: Furthering the comparison -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part IV. Other lexifier -- Negation in Palenquero: Syntax, pragmatics, and change in progress -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Palenquero predicate negation -- 2.1 Early analyses and the relevance of pragmatic factors -- 2.2 A dissenting voice: Alternative thoughts on the analysis of Palenquero predicate negation -- 2.3 Further dissent and additional thoughts about the pragmatics of negation -- 2.4 Suggestions for further study of Palenquero negation -- 3. Palenque in the new millennium: Ongoing language change and complicating factors for future studies of Palenquero negation -- 3.1 What it all means for future studies of Palenquero negation -- 4. Summary and discussion -- 4.1 Lessons to be learned from beyond Palenque -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Cross-linguistic negation contrasts in co-convergent contact languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The non-periphrastic verb forms and negation -- 3. The periphrastic perfect construction and negation.

4. The finiteness contrast in negation increases the visibility of event structure contrasts -- 5. Negative polarity and negative concord -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Conclusions -- Referencess -- Index.

This book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages.

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