Negative concord in fragments
Pavel Rudnev
June 2024 

I argue that particular restrictions on the recoverability of elided negation in fragment answers in negative-concord languages follow from the semantics of questions. Drawing parallels with other ellipsis phenomena, I also highlight the role of Agree in making certain heads recoverable. This invalidates a major argument against the analysis of negative-concord items as universal quantifiers scoping above negation.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008150 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10441
keywords:	negative concord, negation, clausal ellipsis, agreement, fragments, russian, syntax
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