2025
The negative concord illusion : an acceptability study with Czech neg-words
LACINA, RadimZákladní údaje
Originální název
The negative concord illusion : an acceptability study with Czech neg-words
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Vydání
Linguistics Vanguard, Berlin, Walter De Gryuter, 2025, 2199-174X
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
60203 Linguistics
Stát vydavatele
Německo
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Impakt faktor
Impact factor: 0.900 v roce 2024
Označené pro přenos do RIV
Ano
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
UT WoS
EID Scopus
Klíčová slova anglicky
negative concord; grammaticality illusions; speeded acceptability; Czech
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 2. 3. 2026 10:49, prof. Radek Čech, Ph.D.
Anotace
V originále
Languages such as Czech exhibit negative concord, a requirement for any neg-word (e.g., 'nobody') in a clause to be accompanied by sentential negation. Theoretical treatments see this phenomenon as either a case of syntactic agreement or subsume it under negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Interestingly, in the processing of both agreement and NPIs, the inclusion of a distractor element can induce comprehenders to accept otherwise ungrammatical sentences. We tested whether such grammaticality illusions also arise with negative concord. We ran an acceptability judgement study with native speakers of Czech to see whether the inclusion of an irrelevant negated verb in a relative clause caused them to accept an ungrammatical sentence with an unlicensed neg-word. This tendency was clearly seen in the speeded acceptability judgement task (Experiment 1), but not when participants had enough time for their answers (Experiment 2), a pattern typical for linguistic illusions. Our results thus show that there is indeed an effect – the negative concord illusion.
