A typological perspective on nominal concord

Santa Cruz a Theory of Nominal Concord

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Negative Concord in Afrikaans: filling a typological gap

Negative Concord (NC) is the phenomenon where not every morphosyntactically negative element corresponds to a semantic negation. It has long been noted that NC languages appear to be of different types. Giannakidou (2000) distinguishes Strict NC from Non-strict NC languages. In Strict NC languages every negative indefinite (henceforth n-word, following Laka’s (1990) terminology) must be accompa...

Morphological Complexity: a typological perspective

Modeling Typological Markedness in Semantics: The Case of Negative Concord

We will provide an analysis of negative concord in sentential negation in three languages, French, Polish and German. The focus of the paper is (1) the typological variation with respect to the realization of negative concord in the three languages under investigation and (2) the treatment of lexical exceptions within the different typological classes. We will propose a unified theory of negati...

Japanese Pitch Accent in a Typological Perspective

Standard Tokyo Japanese has a rich pitch-accent system where multiple pitch patterns are differentiated from each other in terms of the presence/absence of an abrupt pitch fall as well as its position. However, this is only one type of system among the variety of pitch-accent systems found in the language. This paper looks at these pitch-accent systems from typological viewpoints, through a com...