Typological Studies in Negation

1994-01-01 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Peter Kahrel
Release : 1994-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Typological Studies in Negation by : Peter Kahrel

Download or read book Typological Studies in Negation written by Peter Kahrel. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. As not much is known about negation systems in non-European languages, the first aim of the volume is to provide data on various aspects on negation; for all articles these data were collected on the basis of the same questionnaire. Most work on this subject deals with syntactic aspects of negation; this volume attempts to include pragmatic and semantic issues as well, such as the expression of negative indefinites, interaction of negation and quantifiers, the scope of negation, and the choice of a particular form of negation in cases where there are several ways to express this. For a number of less-known languages descriptions offering a wealth of data are presented here, and in the articles about well-studied languages, new data and analyses of more complicated issues are provided.

The Syntax of Negation

1995-03-30 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Liliane Haegeman
Release : 1995-03-30
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book The Syntax of Negation written by Liliane Haegeman. This book was released on 1995-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework, showing parallelism between negative and interrogative sentences.

Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives

2015-07-28 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Pierre Larrivée
Release : 2015-07-28
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives written by Pierre Larrivée. This book was released on 2015-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various experimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French, Catalan and Korean along with analyses using semantic and pragmatic methods, corpus linguistics, diachronic perspectives and longitudinal acquisitional studies as well as signed and gestural negation. Each contribution is situated with regards to major previous studies, thereby offering readers insights on the current state of the art in research on negation and negative polarity, highlighting how theory and data together contributes to the understanding of cognition and mind.

The Expression of Negation

2010 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Laurence R. Horn
Release : 2010
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book The Expression of Negation written by Laurence R. Horn. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of negative sentences in a variety of languages and offers state-of-the-art surveys of the acquisition of negation by children, its processing by adults, its historical development, and its interaction with other operators and predicates within natural language sentences. Topics covered include the nature of negative polarity, the phenomenon of pleonastic or illogical negation, and the role of morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic.

Aspects of English Negation

2005-01-01 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Yoko Iyeiri
Release : 2005-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Aspects of English Negation written by Yoko Iyeiri. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part "Aspects of Negation in the History of English" includes six contributions, that focus on the usages of the negative adverbs ne and not, the decline of negative concord, and the development of the auxiliary do in negation. Most of the themes discussed here are then linked to the second part "Aspects of Negation in Present-day English". Especially, the issue of negative concord is repeatedly explored by three of the five papers in this part, one related to British English dialects in general, another to Tyneside English, and the other to African American Vernacular English. This book uniquely highlights the importance of continuity from Old English to Present-day English, while, in its introduction, it provides a useful detailed survey of previous studies on English negation.

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