caa a22 4500 475782186 CHVBK 20180406123647.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1006449808181 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1006449808181 Déprez Viviane Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, 18 Seminary Place, 08903, New Brunswick, NJ aut Parallel (A)Symmetries And The Internal Structure Of Negative Expressions [Elektronische Daten] [Viviane Déprez] In many Romance languages, negative expressions exhibit a robust distributional asymmetry.When in post-verbal positions, they require theco-presence of negation; when in pre-verbal positions,they are incompatible with it. In the same languages, bare nominals exhibit a distribution that parallels the negativeone in some striking respects. They are possible in post-verbal positions, but infelicitous as pre-verbal subjects. Similar distributionalparallelisms between these expressions are shown toobtain cross-linguistically and diachronically and are argued to derive from their common internal syntactic and semantics properties. Both expressions have a 'deficient' DP, lack quantificational force, and are unable to check the D feature of EPP. Bare nominals may lack D0, but negative expressions contain a null D0syntactically licensed under DP internal Spec Headagreement or head movement. As these operations result from parametricoptions in DP syntax and have consequences on the semantic nature of these expressions, the central result of the paper isto derive cross-linguistic variations in negative concord from independentchoices in DP syntax. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/2(2000-05-01), 253-342 0167-806X 18:2<253 2000 18 11049 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006449808181 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006449808181 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Déprez Viviane Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, 18 Seminary Place, 08903, New Brunswick, NJ aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/2(2000-05-01), 253-342 0167-806X 18:2<253 2000 18 11049 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer