LINGUIST List 11.705

Wed Mar 29 2000

Qs: Negative Concord/English, Speech Errors

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1. Alison Henry, Negative concord in varieties of English
2. Joaquim Brand�ode Carvalho, Speech errors

In connection with a research project on negative concord in 
Belfast English, I am trying to find other recent work on negative 
concord in varieties of English. I would be grateful for references to 
such work particularly unpublished or in less-well-known 
publication outlets which we might not have come across.
 I am also interested in finding out whether there are any varieties 
where a sequence of N-word followed by not/n't is grammatical 
with a negative concord reading ie sentences like
	(1) Nobody hasn't told us about it
Alison Henry
Alison Henry
Coordinator of Academic Affairs
Communication
School of Psychology and Communication
University of Ulster at Jordanstown
Shore Road
Newtownabbey
Co Antrim
BT37 0QB
N Ireland
Tel: (+44)(0)1232-366544
Fax: (+44)(0)1232-368251

Dear colleagues,

It is well-known that in many speech errors, word games and the like,
consonants and/or vowels are interchanged. For example, given the French
word /fyzi/ 'gun', we can have :
(a) /zyfi/ (C-permutation),
(b) /fizy/ (V-permutation),
or
(c) /zify/ (syllable permutation).

My questions are :

1) Do you know of cases of the type in (a) and/or (c), in any language,
where the laryngeal features, and only these features, are *not*
interchanged? Given the example above, this would give :
(a') */syvi/
(c') */sivy/

(N.B.: The expected language(s) must have voice contrasts in both initial
and intervocalic contexts. I do not consider here the possible, and very
common, cases where voiced and voiceless obstruents are disallowed
word-initially and between vowels respectively.)

2) Do you know of cases of the type in (a) and/or (c), in any language,
where *only* laryngeal features are interchanged? Given the example above,
this would give :
(a'') */vysi/
(c'') */visy/

Thank you very much for any information. I will post a summary if I get
enough responses.


Joaquim Brandao de Carvalho
1, rue Henri Poincare
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please replace the prefix '01' with '331'.)

Departement de linguistique
Faculte des Sciences Humaines et Sociales - Sorbonne
Universite Rene Descartes - Paris V

CNRS : ESA 7018, GDR 1954

jbrandaoidf.ext.jussieu.fr