Less formal and more rebellious — An experiment on the social meaning of negative concord in American English

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Section 1: General theoretical issues
5. Negative concord: the first 133 years 9
6. Negindefinites and negative concord: concepts, terms and analyses 53
7. Negative concord and TAM: a new perspective 77
8. Non-strict negative concord: a correlate of focus movement? 107
9. The universal force of (strict) negative concord 123
10. N-words: in defence of wide scope. A view from Romanian 149
11. Section 2: Perspectives on variation
12. Negative concord in Medieval Greek: lexical asymmetry and the role of correlative negation 175
13. What does the linear position of negative concord items tell us about their properties? 207
14. Grammar or error? Non-compositional (expletive/paratactic) negation in Dutch sentences with zonder ‘without’ 239
15. Two negatives in Tyneside English questions: negative concord or double negation? 269
16. Less formal and more rebellious — An experiment on the social meaning of negative concord in American English 303
17. Subject index 333
18. Language index 337
19. Name index 341