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SUMMARY:Negative Concord in the history of German - Agnes Jäger\, Univers
 ität Frankfurt
DTSTART:20070518T140000Z
DTEND:20070518T150000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Anne Breitbarth
DESCRIPTION:Modern Standard German is a non-NC language. However\, NC can 
 be found in some synchronic dialects and also in earlier stages of German.
  A corpus-based study of the development shows that both the type of NC as
  well as the main syntactic patterns competing with NC changed diachronica
 lly. While Old High German and Middle High German basically only show NC o
 f the type of Neg-Doubling with the Neg° negative particle ni/ne\, Modern
  German NC dialects have NC both of the Neg-Doubling and of the Neg-Spread
  type between negative XPs. The main syntactic pattern competing with NC i
 n Old High German consisted in marking negation on the verb but not on the
  indefinite pronoun or adverb. In Middle High German and Modern German NC 
 dialects\, on the other hand\, the main competitor to NC constructions is 
 to mark negation only by means of an indefinite. The corpus study further 
 reveals that there is a significant decrease in NC already from Old High G
 erman to Middle High German parallel to the loss of the overt Neg° elemen
 t through Jespersen's Cycle. These observations are crucially linked to th
 e development of the system of indefinites.
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