Negative Coordination in (Turaif) Arabic

We discuss the combination of negation and coordination in an Arabic construction which is somewhat akin to the neither....nor construction in English and many other languages. In Arabic the form marking the non-initial conjunct is transparently related to the and coordinator rather than the or form. We provide an analysis of bisyndetic negative coordination expressing both sentential and constituent negation, and also as negative concord elements in certain contexts. We draw exclusively on data from the Turaif variety of Arabic in our discussion. The central facts concerning the use and distribution of the bisyndetic negative coordination construction are however broadly similar across the Arabic vernaculars.