Lauren Van Alsenoy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lauren Van Alsenoy is involved.
Articles
2016 On the typology of negative concord Studies in Language 40:3, pp. 473–512 | Article
This paper has three main points. First, contrary to what is often stated, negative concord is not all that frequent and certainly not the most frequent strategy to express single clausal negation in a clause with an indefinite noun phrase or adverbial in the scope of the negation. Second, the… read more
2015 Indefinite pronouns in Uralic languages Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 519–546 | Article
In this paper, different types of indefinite pronouns and adverbs that can occur in negative sentences in the Uralic languages will be described and discussed against a wider typological background. It will be shown that Uralic languages display the typological default strategy as to the… read more
2014 On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concord The Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Jacqueline Visconti (eds.), pp. 13–46 | Article
Negative concord and double clausal negation are separate phenomena, which show some striking similarities, the main similarity being the fact that negation is formally expressed more than once, but semantically only once. These similarities have led scholars to hypothesize on whether and how these… read more