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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:17:30
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Dimroth, Sudhoff (eds.)

 


Title: The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast 
Subtitle: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 249  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.249 


Editor: Christine Dimroth
Editor: Stefan Sudhoff

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263384 Pages: 291 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263384 Pages: 291 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263384 Pages: 291 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201669 Pages: 291 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201669 Pages: 291 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201669 Pages: 291 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly
surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning
component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in
discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like German and
Dutch, where prosody and assertive particles are systematically associated
with polarity contrast. Recently, the grammatical realization of polarity
contrast has been at the center of investigations in a range of other
languages as well. Core questions concern the formal repertoire and the exact
meaning contribution of the relevant devices, the kind of contrast they evoke,
and their relation to information structure and sentence mood. This volume
brings together researchers from a theoretical, an empirical, and a
typological orientation and enhances our understanding of polarity with the
help of in-depth analyses and cross-linguistic comparisons dealing with the
syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and/or prosodic aspects of the phenomenon.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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