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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Dear colleagues,<div><br>Are you aware of any linguistic work on coordination in constructions with predicate negation?</div><div>One of the questions which I am interested in is why in some languages (English) the negation can be expressed once (1), while in others (Russian) it must be expressed twice (3), while (2) is ungrammatical:</div><div><br></div><div>English:</div><div>(1) He does not read books or watch TV.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian:</div><div>(2) *On ne chitaet knigi i / ili smotrit televizor</div><div> he NEG reads books and / or watches TV</div><div> Intended: 'He does not read books and / or watch TV'.</div><div><br></div><div>(3) On ne chitaet knigi i ne smotrit televizor</div><div> he NEG reads books and NEG watches TV</div><div> 'He does not read books and does not watch TV'.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot in advance,</div><div><br>Sasha Letuchiy, Moscow</div> </div></body>
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