caa a22 4500 475782046 CHVBK 20180406123647.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1006477315705 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1006477315705 Giannakidou Anastasia E-mail: giannaki@let.rug.nl aut Negative ... Concord? [Elektronische Daten] [Anastasia Giannakidou] The main claim of this paper is that a general theory of negative concord (NC) should allow for the possibility of NC involving scoping of a universal quantifier above negation. I propose that Greek NC instantiates this option.Greek n-words will be analyzed as polarity sensitive universal quantifierswhich need negation in order to be licensed, but must raise abovenegation in order to yield the scoping ∀¬. This gives thecorrect interpretation of NC structures as general negative statements.The effect is achieved by application of QR, and the account is fullycompositional, as only sentence negation is the vehicle of logical negation¬. Greek n-words are also compared to n-words in Romance, Slavic,and Hungarian. This analysis, if correct, has two important consequences.First, theanalysis will provide a strong argument for retainingQR in the syntax-semanticsmapping: we need it in order to interpret NC. Second,by employing a mechanismwhich is present in the grammar for the scopeof quantifiers anyway, we have asimpler theory which makes NC look less anomalous; appeal to a mechanisminvoked just to account for NC, asin the 's'snegative absorption'' tradition, isthus rendered unnecessary. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/3(2000-08-01), 457-523 0167-806X 18:3<457 2000 18 11049 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006477315705 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006477315705 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Giannakidou Anastasia E-mail: giannaki@let.rug.nl aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/3(2000-08-01), 457-523 0167-806X 18:3<457 2000 18 11049 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer