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The association between sentential negation and tense has solid foundations in the literature. It has even been argued that sentential negative markers consist of a Tense feature (De Clercq 2018, 2020). This paper adduces the first results from a typological study and data from Bambara in support of this claim. In addition, the Bambara data also point to the morphological realisation of present or default tense, to a hierarchy for tense and to a position for sentential negation in that hierarchy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the distributional and interpretive properties of three quantifiers such as no/nothing, SQUAT and zero. By applying syntactic tests, it illustrates that no/nothing can generate both syntactic and semantic sentential negation, on the contrary, SQUAT and zero can only produce to a semantic sentential negation. Using Beghelli's clause structure for such quantifiers, it concludes that SQUAT cannot get a cardinal, in situ, and an interpretation.

The article presents a study on the analysis of proper names that are used as common nouns in Belgian Dutch and German. It states that proper names used as common nouns (PUCs) come in three various semantic classes such as PUCs that indicate events, PUCs that indicate objects and PUCs that indicate persons. It focuses on the basic data particularly on the grammatical gender of PUCs in Belgian Dutch and German, and analyzes the possibility of a PF-deletion analysis for PUCs that will turn out to be effective for the German data, but not for the Belgian Dutch data. The study reveals that neither the PF-deletion analysis nor the empty noun analysis are applicable for Belgian Dutch PUCs and German person-denoting PUCs.