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Negative Existential Constructions

Negative Existential Constructions is a syntactic construct in negation morphology that expresses the absence of existence or presence of an entity, distinguished from other negation types by asserting non-existence through a specific structural configuration involving negators and existential predicates.

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2017–2026

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<i>Was/were</i>variation across the generations: View from the city of York

Sali A. Tagliamonte · Language Variation and Change · 1998 · 320 citations

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Negative existentials: A cross-linguistic study

Ljuba Veselinova · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2024 · 209 citations · Full text

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The negative existential cycle revisited

Ljuba Veselinova · Linguistics · 2014 · 119 citations · Full text

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On Existential Polarity-WH-0Phrases in Chinese

Jo-wang Lin · Journal of East Asian Linguistics · 1998 · 111 citations

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Scalar Additive Particles in Negative Contexts

Bernhard Schwarz · Natural Language Semantics · 2005 · 86 citations

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Authors

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  1. VB
    Vladimir Borschev

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    4 publications · 187 citations

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  2. BH
    Barbara H. Partee

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    4 publications · 187 citations

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  3. LV
    Ljuba Veselinova

    Stockholm University, Sweden

    2 publications · 328 citations

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  4. GP
    Gualtiero Piccinini

    University of Missouri–St. Louis, United States

    2 publications · 40 citations

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  5. SS
    Sam Scott

    University of Missouri–St. Louis, United States

    2 publications · 40 citations

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  1. University of Missouri–St. Louis

    St Louis, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    40 citations

  2. American University of Sharjah

    Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    29 citations

  3. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    57 citations

  4. University of Auckland

    Auckland, New Zealand

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  5. Pázmány Péter Catholic University

    Budapest, Hungary

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  6. Stockholm University

    Stockholm, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    119 citations

  7. California University of Pennsylvania

    California, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    28 citations

  8. University of Ljubljana

    Ljubljana, Slovenia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

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  1. dialectica

    3 publications · 120 citations

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  2. Lingua

    3 publications · 36 citations

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  3. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory

    SALT · 2 publications · 56 citations

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  4. Linguistics

    2 publications · 148 citations

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  5. Journal of Semantics

    2 publications · 51 citations

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