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Sentential negation and negative concord
Zeijlstra, H.H.
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2004
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Zeijlstra, H. H. (2004). Sentential negation and negative concord. LOT/ACLC.
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Duringg the last years, when I was a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam, 1 receivedd many help from various people around me. Without their kind help I would nott have been able to write this book, and I am very happy to express my gratitude towardss them in this section.
First,, I would like to express my deepest gratitude towards my supervisors: Hans Bennis,, Hans den Besten and Jeroen Groenendijk. Hans Bennis taught me how to reasonn and argument scientifically. I very much enjoyed all our discussions. Hans den Bestenn has always been available to help me out with all different kinds of questions. Hiss encyclopaedic knowledge is admirable. Jeroen Groenendijk was always there to answerr any semantic question.
Inn this respect, I would also like to thank the following people: Aafke Hulk, who was myy former promotor, for always standing behind me; Sjef Barbiers, who coordinated thee Syntactic Atlas of Dutch Dialects (SAND) project, for the many conversations and hiss patience with my way of doing fieldwork; Paul Dekker for bridging the gap betweenn the linguists and the philosophers in Amsterdam and for introducing me in thee Amsterdam semantics community; Fred Weerman for bringing new life into the Dutchh linguistics group and for willing to read my papers, abstracts, etc. and many fruitfull discussions; Arnim von Stechow, finally, for being a great inspirer and having invitedd me to come to work in Tubingen. I am glad that you were all willing to join thee reading committee.
II was very lucky to be able to participate in several linguistic communities, which all provedd to be very stimulating surroundings. The Dutch linguistics group grew rapidly overr the past few years and formed a nice environment to work in. I enjoyed the many discussionss during lunches, varying from the latest minimalist papers to the weird developmentss in Dutch politics. Maren Pannemann and Suzanne Aalberse, you were greatt roommates.
Inn my first year as a PhD student I was part of the Holland Institute for generative Linguisticss (HIL). This institute was a profound place to do research and up till today II still can't understand what the bureaucrats had in mind when they decided to split up thiss institute. I would like to thank the (former) HIL members for their accepting me too their graduate program.
Thee Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) is more and more turningg into a nice platform for many different ideas about language. The Friday afternoonn borrels were very pleasant and often let to interesting exchanges of ideas. I havee good memories of the weekly AiO-lunches.
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II want to thank the members of the Institute for Logic, Language & Computation for theirr hospitality. I very much enjoyed the cooperation with the semanticists and pragmaticians,, especially in the fall of 2003 and the spring of 2004 when I was offeredd a working place in the Vendelstraat building. Special thanks to Marian Counihann for sharing her desk and computer with me.
Thee SAND project was a very fruitful environment to work in, partly due to its pioneeringg character. Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Marjo van Koppen were pleasant colleaguess to collaborate with. Many thanks to Margreet van der Ham for coping with thee coordination of all practical matters.
Onee of the most satisfactory elements in my linguistic life has been the Central Easternn European Summerschool in Generative Grammar, also known as the egg. The eggg is an environment where a linguistic battlefield is synonymous to a crazy party floor.. The combination of intellectual debate, appealing courses, the lack of hierarchy (exceptt in syntactic structures) and lots of fun made many of my new ideas emerge. I amm very happy to work together with Michal Starke, Tobias Scheer, Klaus Abels, Jonathann Kaye and Luisa Marti to organize this school and I am grateful for their friendship. .
Thankss to a scholarship provided by the Dutch Research Foundation (NWO) I was ablee to spend three months as a visiting student at New York University (NYU). In thee first place I would like to thank Anna Szabolcsi for all her enthusiasm, her critical commentss and her advices. I would also like to thank Mark Baltin, Paul Elbourne and Paull Postal and Marcel Den Dikken and Janet Dean Fodor of the City University of Neww York (CUNY) for interesting courses and discussions. Finally I would like the memberss of the linguistic departments of NYU, CUNY and SUNY Stony Brook for providingg a great intellectually and socially attractive atmosphere.
II was also offered to spend a short time at the linguistic department of the Ca'Foscari Universityy in Venice. I want to express my gratitude towards Walther Schweikert and Guglielmoo Cinque for their invitation and our interesting conversations.
II would like to thank the members of the Tubingen linguistics community for the warmm welcome they provided me. Specials thanks go to Doris Penka for all the preparationss she did for our project 'Typology and Logical Form of Sentential Negation'' and for introducing me to my new working place. I also wanted to thank Manfredd Sailer for his hospitality and Beate Starke for dealing with all the administrationall matters and for providing me a place to live.
Apartt from the above-mentioned there are many colleagues who have all helped me withh my study in some way. 1 am much indebted to Enoch Aboh, Marta Abrusan, Peterr Ackema, Paolo Acquaviva, Artemis Alexiadou, Ingrid van Alphen, Diana Apoussidou,, Jacques Arends, Boban Arsenijevic, Johan van der Auwera, John Bailyn, Annee Baker, Dik Bakker, Kata Balogh, Artur Bartnik, Margot van den Berg, Gianina
Bianchi,, Sylvia Blaho, Elma Blom, Annerieke Boland, Machtelt Bolkestein (t), Anne Breitbarth,, Misi Brody, Andreas Bulk, Dirk Bury, Anna Cardinaletti, Balder ten Cate, Lisaa Cheng, Erika Chisarik, Oana Ciucivara, Robert Cloutier, Cleo Condoravdi, Leoniee Cornips, Crit Cremers, Carlos de Cuba, Marina Diakanova, Alexis Dimitriadis,, Jan Don, Ray Dougherty, Els Elffers, Sam Epstein, Marianne Erkelens, Jakubb Fast, Susann Fischer, Eric Fuss, Berit Gehrke, Elly van Gelderen, Anastasia Giannakidou,, Ingeborg van Gijn, Alessandra Giorgi, Nino Grillo, Bill Haddican, Lilianee Haegeman, Tjerk Hagemeijer, Alice Harris, Irene Haslinger, Vicky van den Heede,, Herman Hendriks, Kees Hengeveld, Elena Herburger, Vincent van Heuven, Wolframm Hinzen, Jack Hoeksema, Helen de Hoop, Larry Horn, Thorbjorg Hroarsdottir,, Susana Huidobro, Agnes Jager, Irene Jakobi, Mathilde Jansen, Nel de Jong,, Mélanie Jouitteau, Willy Jongenburger, Ans van Kemenade, Hans Kamp, Richardd Kayne, Suzanne van der Kleij, Hilda Koopman, Joost Kremers, Tony Kroch, Folkertt Kuiken, Bill Ladusaw, Richard Larson, Tom Leu, Lisa Levinson, David Lightfoot,, Rui Linhares-Dias, Anikó Liptak, Paolo Lorusso, Jon MacDonald, Andrej Malchukov,, Frank 'Lanko' Marusic, Rosja Mastop, Eric Mathieu, Jason Merchant, Krzysztoff Migdalski, Fons Moerdijk, Fabrice Nauze, Ad Neeleman, Annemie Neuckermans,, Andrew Nevins, 0ystein Nilsen, Rick Nouwen, Hamid Ouali, Orin Percus,, Roland Pfau, Cecilia Poletto, Daniela Polisenka, Gertjan Postma, Ellen Prince,, Liina Pylkkanen, Josep Quer, Gillian Ramchand, Wim Remmelink, Henk van Riemsdijk,, Laura Rimell, Ian Roberts, Tom Roeper, Jasper Roodenburg, Johan Rooryck,, Robert van Rooy, Margot Roozendaal, Eddy Ruys, Kjell Saebe, Marie Safarova,, Ken Safir, Martin Salzmann, Ana Lucia Santos, Magdalena Scheiner, Katrinn Schulz, Petra Sleeman, Martin Stokhof, Jan Stroop, Balazs Suranyi, Peter Svenonius,, Henriêtte de Swart, Kriszta Szendröi, Alexandra Teodorescu, Arhonto Terzi,, Olga Tomic, Christina Tortora, Els Verheugd, Henk Verkuyl, Reiko Vermeulen,, Luis Vicente, Evangelia Vlachou, Gunther de Vogelaer, Mark de Vries, Michaell Wagner, Helmut Weiss, Henk Wolf, Ton van der Wouden, Wim van der Wurff,, Rafaella Zanuttini, Henk Zeevat, Malte Zimmermann, Jan-Wouter Zwart and Eytann Zweig.
Partss of this work have been presented at various conferences. I would like to thank thee respective audiences for their valuable comments.
Thiss research would never have been possible without the friendly cooperation of the informantss for the SAND project. I owe much to all those who were willing to help us withh their judgements and answering questions about the most exotic and weird constructions. .
Thankss to Keetje van den Heuvel for all the help she provided during the printing process. .
II have received a lot of support by many friends and relatives, especially during the finalfinal stage of this dissertation. Jurriaan van der Stok and Marius van Dam, I am very happyy with our friendships and I am glad that you will be my paranimfen. I also
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wouldd like to thank Jan Willem Romeyn for sincere friendship, for ongoing discussions,, for reading parts of this thesis and for being my neighbour again.
II would like to thank my parents, Anneke and Jan Hein, for having supported me over thee last 29 years and having made things possible for me.
Finally,, I want to thank Petra for all her love, patience and support. I realise sometimess you felt you had to share me with NegP. I am glad that now we are able to spendd more time together. With all my love, this book is dedicated to you.
