Sentential negation and negative concord

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A Syntactic Universal and Its Consequences (2014, background): “The question force would be supplied by an abstract higher question morpheme (see Ladusaw 1992, Zeijlstra 2004 for a similar proposal with respect to negation).”
On the syntactically complex status of negative indefinites (2011, background): “This prediction is borne out (on the basis of an extensive crosslinguistic and language-internal survey, cf. Zeijlstra (2004)): there is no language without Negative Concord that exhibits a negative marker that is a syntactic head.14 This prediction remains unexplained though under Penka’s analysis…”
What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality (2019, background): “Examples include: Binding Theory and fake indexicals (Kratzer 2009; Reuland 2011; Rooryck & Vanden Wyngaerd 2011), negative concord (Zeijlstra 2004; 2008b), modal concord (Zeijlstra 2008a), noun-modifier concord (Mallen 1997; Carstens 2000; Baker 2008), and the formation of in-situ questions…”