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Negative Concord is a technical term for the linguistic phenomenon when the multiple occurrence of negative expressions does not turn the sentence into a positive statement. Asymmetric Negative Concord widely used in Romance languages. Preverbal negative expressions function as negative licensers, while post-verbal negative expressions are Negative Concord Items, in need of a licenser. The clause negator is obligatory with postverbal negative expressions while it is banned with pre-verbal ones.
The Strict Negative Concord strategy means that the clause negator is obligatory irrespective of the number of negative expressions in pre-verbal or post-verbal position in the sentence. This strategy is widely used in Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages. The panel presents some new facts about Strict Negative Concord in Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovenian, and Hungarian, to create a platform for further comparison.