Open Access*NEG NEG
Author(s) -
Chris Collins
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
glossa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2397-1835
DOI - 10.5334/gjgl.611
Subject(s) - negation , constraint (computer aided design) , linguistics , range (aeronautics) , mathematics , psychology , computer science , philosophy , materials science , geometry , composite material
I argue that there is a grammatical (non-semantic) constraint in English that prohibits double negation, dubbed *NEG NEG. I adduce a range of structures to illustrate this constraint, and show that apparent counter-examples are not double negation.