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 …

This investigation draws from research on negative polarity item (NPI) illusions in order to
explore a new and interesting instance of misalignment observed for grammatical sentences …

How do we adapt our grammar to communicate social detail? Do all working class people
have a local dialect or are we free to use language in ways that transcend our place in the …

This paper uses eye-tracking while reading to examine Standard English speakers'
processing of sentences with two syntactic negations: a negative auxiliary and either a …

This paper investigates the acoustic correlates of single and Double Negation (DN) readings
of English negative indefinites in question–answer pairs. Productions of four negative words …

Country music has become commercially successful both in the US and worldwide. It is
perceived as a genre that values authenticity, which may be reflected in the choice of …

Recent studies on language acquisition have shown that children may initially adopt a
Negative Concord grammar also when this option is disfavoured or forbidden in the target …

Negative Concord (NC) constructions such as the news anchor didn't warn nobody about
the floods (meaning “the news anchor warned nobody”), in which two syntactic negations …

Purpose: Insights from linguistic variation research illustrate a linguistically diverse
population, in which even speakers who can be classified as speaking a “mainstream” …

The aim of this paper is to investigate experimentally the mismatches in the interpretation of
Mandarin Chinese (MC) argumental negative expressions (namely, méi (yǒu) rén 'no …