Negation at Santa Cruz Workshop

The first ad hoc Negation at Santa Cruz (NASC) workshop took place last Monday afternoon to allow some of our current visitors to share ongoing work connected to negation. We heard from Johan Brandtler on preposed negation in Swedish, from Karen De Clercq on tag questions in English, and from Floris Roelofsen (in collaboration with Adrian Brasoveanu and Donka Farkas), on polarity particles and negative indefinites. “Many far less ad hoc workshops are far less cohesive”, Matt Tucker commented. After the workshop there was an equally ad hoc (and equally enjoyable) pizza dinner at the home of Peter and Donka. The organizers wish to thank presenters and participants and apologize to any who could not make it due to the ad hoc nature of the scheduling.