Negative concord, fragments and (Downward) Agree

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I argue that strict negative concord items (NCIs) are licensed by standard (Downward) Agree. NCIs bear a [uNeg] feature which probes its c-command domain. If no [iNeg] goal is available, an NCI moves to the closest position which enables licensing. By virtue of this NCIs are either base-generated or move outside of the scope of [iNeg] negation. I provide evidence for this analysis from Russian with a special attention to the fragment answers data. I propose that either the polarity mismatch in ellipsis or separate deletion of negation from PF after ellipsis should be allowed. I also show that the Agree analysis straightforwardly accounts for ambiguous fragment answers to negative questions which are problematic for the analyses which assume licensing in the scope of covert negation.

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