Negative Concord in Western Armenian

Abstract

This paper examines a unique phenomena of negative concord found in Western Ar-menian (WA). When two negative morphemes appear together in the same clause, there are two possible interpretations that result cross-linguistically. Either each negative morpheme contributes a negation to the semantics, known as double nega-tion (DN) or the two morphemes surface as one instance of negation, know as neg-ative concord (NC).