Syntax of negative inversion in non-standard English. Foreman, J. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), 17:205–219, 1999. abstract bibtex Although negative inversion sentences of the type of West Texas English Ain't no black Santa Claus, which form the tag is there?, are derived from existential sentences by omission of the expletive subject pronoun, the negative inversion seen in Ain't nobody doin' nothin' wrong, are they? requires a different analysis, as the tag formation shows that the underlying subject must be in the surface subject position. Contrary to a proposal by William Labov et al (1968), movement of the auxiliary into the complementizer head as found in Standard English questions & negative inversion is unavailable for sentences of the second type, as the auxiliary cannot raise over a definite subject in West Texas English negative inversion. It is proposed that in these constructions negative auxiliaries raise above the subject agreement projection to a second negative phrase NegP2 that also hosts pre-subject not in Standard English sentences of the type Not many people went. 9 References. J. Hitchcock
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abstract = {Although negative inversion sentences of the type of West Texas English Ain't no black Santa Claus, which form the tag is there?, are derived from existential sentences by omission of the expletive subject pronoun, the negative inversion seen in Ain't nobody doin' nothin' wrong, are they? requires a different analysis, as the tag formation shows that the underlying subject must be in the surface subject position. Contrary to a proposal by William Labov et al (1968), movement of the auxiliary into the complementizer head as found in Standard English questions \& negative inversion is unavailable for sentences of the second type, as the auxiliary cannot raise over a definite subject in West Texas English negative inversion. It is proposed that in these constructions negative auxiliaries raise above the subject agreement projection to a second negative phrase NegP2 that also hosts pre-subject not in Standard English sentences of the type Not many people went. 9 References. J. Hitchcock},
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