On some apparently unlicensed negative concord items in Slovenian

Along with other Slavic languages, Slovenian is claimed to be a strict negative-concord language, meaning that various Negative concord items are said to be licensed only in fullfledged sentences in the presence of a clausemate negator 'ne', regardless of the word order (Ilc 2019, Gregorčič et al. 2024). We discuss a type of data that appears to challenge this generalization, a construction that is abundantly attested and contains a finite verb, an NCI and no negator. We suggest that the construction exhibits a VP-fronting operation, whereby the finite verb is fronted without the "prefixal" negator, which is present in the structure but ultimately gets deleted.