In: Valia Kordoni (ed): Tübingen Studies in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Nr. 132, Volume 1. Universität Tübingen. pp. 231-300
This paper started as part of Manfred's and my
work on negative concord in Polish.
However, we realized very soon that the corresponding French
data were so complex and exciting that we could not treat them
as a mere side issue of our investigation of Polish. The point of this
paper is to show that the techniques and architecture developed for
Polish are applicable to other languages. We defend a strictly
lexicalist view of negative concord and argue that an interestingly
broad range of data can only be analyzed if we admit that distributional
idiosyncrasies of words play and important role. In addition to modern
Standard French we also discuss Canadian French (Acadien) and Haitian
Creole. The final analysis builds on our collocation theory: N-words
that participate in negative concord constructions impose conditions
on admissible logical forms in certain licensing domains.
The paper might also be of interest to readers of the Polish paper,
since it contains an appendix that formalizes the semantic
representation language and the collocation theory of both papers in
RSRL.
Electronically available file formats (66 pages):
Bibtex entry:
@inproceedings{richter:sailer:french, author = {Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer}, title = {A lexicalist collocation analysis of sentential negation and negative concord in French}, booktitle = {T\"ubingen Studies in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar}, editor = {Valia Kordoni}, publisher = {Universit\"at T\"ubingen}, year = 1999, pages = {231--300}, series = {{Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Nr. 132, Volume 1}} }