Negative attraction and negative concord in English grammar
Author:
- William LabovWLWilliam Labov
- 1 December 1972
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Language
- Vol. 48 (4) , 773-818
Abstract
The attraction of the negative to subject any is an invariant rule for all dialects of English, and appears to respond to the distributive and hypothetical features of this indeterminate. Negative concord, on the other hand, is a variable rule which distributes the negative rightward in response to affective factors. It is progressively extended from one dialect to another in an implicational series which initiates negation in new positions as the rule approaches obligatory status in the original environments.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Linguistics and Natural Logic1972
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