Double negatives and intonation in Dutch

Henriette de Swart; Renata Fonville

Double negatives and intonation in Dutch

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Abstract

Dutch qualifies as a double negation language, but single negation readings are found in certain environments, under conditions that are not well understood. The combination of corpus research and a production experiment carried out in this paper reveals a surprising amount of variation, and points towards a subtle interplay of lexical factors (choice of negative expression and combinations thereof), syntactic factors (word order and adjacency), and prosodic factors
(pitch accent on first/second negative) in Dutch sentences with multiple negative expressions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Black book: a Festschrift for Frans Zwarts
Editors	Dicky Gilbers, Jack Hoeksema
Place of Publication	Groningen
Publisher	Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen
Pages	86-100
Number of pages	15
Publication status	Published - Jun 2014

Keywords

negation
prosody
semantics

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Double negatives and intonation in Dutch

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