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From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: The Expression of Negation: Horn (Ed)
 

	
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Title: The Expression of Negation 
Series Title: The Expression of Cognitive Categories [ECC] 4  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110219296-1 


Editor: Laurence R Horn

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110219302 Pages: 343 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110219296 Pages: 343 Price: Europe EURO 99.95


Abstract:

Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from 
otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is 
negation that makes us human, imbuing us with the capacity to deny, to 
contradict, to misrepresent, to lie, and to convey irony.  The apparent 
simplicity of logical negation as a one-place operator that toggles truth and 
falsity belies the intricate complexity of the expression of negation in natural 
language. Not only do we find negative adverbs, verbs, copulas, quantifiers, 
and affixes, but the interaction of negation with other operators (including 
multiple iterations of negation itself) can be exceedingly complex to describe, 
extending (as first detailed by Otto Jespersen) to negative concord, negative 
incorporation, and the widespread occurrence of negative polarity items 
whose distribution is subject to principles of syntax, semantics, and 
pragmatics. The chapters in this book survey the patterning of negative 
utterances in natural languages, spanning such foundational issues as how 
negative sentences are realized cross-linguistically and how that realization 
tends to change over time, how negation is acquired by children, how it is 
processed by adults, and how its expression changes over time.  Specific 
chapters offer focused empirical studies of negative polarity, pleonastic 
negation, and negative/quantifier scope interaction, as well as detailed 
examinations of the form and function of sentential negation in modern 
Romance languages and Classical Japanese. 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Communications
                     Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Old Japanese (ojp)

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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