In this paper, I argue that the shared premise of both arguments should be rejected. The NC relation can be handled purely with Downward Agree-—a move that is especially natural if we adopt an interaction/satisfaction view of Agree, which de-centers (un)interpretability. I show that treating negative concord as downward Agree is both theoretically viable and typologically productive, allowing variation in NC phenomena to fit neatly into independently known parameters of agreement variation.
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Reference: | lingbuzz/006344 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | Proceedings of NELS 52 |
keywords: | agree, upward, downward, direction, directionality, negation, concord, italian, french, west flemish, interaction, satisfaction, agree, syntax |
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