
Negation and Polarity
Syntactic and Semantic Perspectives
Oxford University Press
Published on 3. August 2000
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-0-19-823874-4 (ISBN)
Description
Negation is a central feature of language and cognition, interacting with all areas of grammar as well as with the philosophy of language. Whereas there is a cross-linguistic uniformity in logical and semantic aspects of negation, there is a diversity of syntactic and morphological forms and rules. This asymmetry in function and form poses problems for syntactic and universal grammar theory and for the study of the interface between syntax and discourse. It is particularly evident in negative polarity-words and phrases which can appear only in negative sentences. The exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory are the main themes of this book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-823874-4 (9780198238744)
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Persons
Laurence R. Horn is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. His primary research interest is located within the union (if not the intersection) of traditional logic, neo-Gricean pragmatic theory, lexical semantics, and the analysis of negation.
Editor
Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate StudiesProfessor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale University
Professor of LinguisticsProfessor of Linguistics, Sophia University, Tokyo
Content
C INTRODUCTION ; NEGATION AND POLARITY AT THE MILLENNIUM ; 1. Negative Preposing, Negative Inversion, and the Split CP ; 2. Interpretive Asymmetries of Negation ; 3. Coordination, C-Command, and 'Logophoric' N-Words ; 4. Negative Polarity Items ; TRIGGERING, SCOPE, AND C-COMMAND ; 5. Pick a Theory (any Theory) ; INDISCRIMINATIVES AND THE FREE-CHOICE INDEFINITE ; 6. The Force of Negation in Wh Exclamatives and Interrogatives ; 7. Thetic and Categorical, Stage and Individual, Weak and Strong ; 8. Negative Inference, Space Construal, and Grammaticalization