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Value Co-occurrence with predicate negation
Language:
African American English
Parameter:
Negation and indefinite pronouns
Examples
They didn't see nothing.
They
they
didn't
did.
neg
see
see
nothing.
nothing
They didn't see anything.
If you don't do nothing but farm work, your social security don't be nothing.
If
if
you
you
don't
do.
neg
do
do
nothing
nothing
but
but
farm
farm
work,
work
your
your
social
social
security
security
don't
do.
neg
be
be
nothing.
nothing
If you only do farm work, then your social security usually isn't very much.
See
Green 2002
: 77
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