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The high-brow name for this syntactic gadget is “negative concord”[1], and Wikipedia lists plenty of languages that have it[2] (including several European ones
by mananaysiempre 5y ago
The high-brow name for this syntactic gadget is “negative concord”[1], and Wikipedia lists plenty of languages that have it[2] (including several European ones and even Old English!).
[1] http://glottopedia.org/index.php/Negative_concord http://glottopedia.org/index.php/Negative_concord
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative