ABSTRACT
As we saw in chapter 3, there are both similarities and differences between the phenomena of polarity sensitivity (PS) and negative concord (NC). This is not surprising if one considers their connection with negation and if one adopts the view that lexical items can perform clusters of functions which are not constant across languages, in the vein of (Haspelmath, 1993). In this chapter, I will argue for keeping PS and NC phenomena distinct, and explore an analysis for NC which can accommodate a negative component in the semantics of N-words. 1
