期刊名称：Taal en Tongval: Language Variation in the Low Countries
印刷版ISSN：0039-8691
电子版ISSN：2215-1214
出版年度：2009
卷号：61
期号：2
页码：1-20
DOI：10.5117/TET2009.2.DESC
出版社：Amsterdam University Press
摘要：Southern Brabant dialects of Dutch provide constructions such as: (a) ik heb iemand niet gezien ( I did not see anybody ) (b) Ik heb niemand niet gezien ( I did not see nobody ) The traditional view is that (a), with a positive quantifier expression developed from (b) with a negative one (cf. Van der Auwera & Neuckermans 2003). In this article the opposite development is proposed. Arguments are derived from earlier language stages in which the negation particle en / ne played an important role, and from the present distribution of both construction types, which are currently found in the central (Brabant) language varieties . In western (Flemish) and eastern (Limburg) dialects (b) is found, but is apparently borrowed from central dialects; (a) is not found at all. The article ends with the suggestion that the same development path might account for Brabant constructions with universal quantifiers, as well. In fact (c) is common in Brabant, and much less so (if at all) in the other southern Dutch dialects: (c) Ik heb al die mensen niet gezien (I did not see all those people).
