35.918, Books: Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Kishimoto, Sawada & Imani (eds.) (2024)

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Date: 01-Mar-2024
From: Katrin Stein [katrin.stein at degruyter.com]
Subject: Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Kishimoto, Sawada & Imani (eds.) (2024)


Title: Polarity-Sensitive Expressions
Subtitle: Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages
Series Title: The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL], edited
by Yukinori Takubo, Haruo Kubozono and Yo Matsumoto
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
                https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110755121/html

Editor: Hideki Kishimoto
Editor: Osamu Sawada
Editor: Ikumi Imani
Abstract:

Polarity (positive, negative) is one of the most fundamental concepts
in the system of language and there are many expressions that are
sensitive to polarity. For example, any in English and wh-mo in
Japanese appear in negative contexts, but not in positive contexts.
While previous studies have shown that polarity-sensitive expressions
are a general phenomenon in languages, it has also become clear that
there are variations in polarity-sensitive expressions. This volume
explores the variations in polarity-sensitive expressions through
comparisons between Japanese and other languages, such as English,
German, Spanish, and Old Japanese, and examines the environments and
contexts in which polarity-sensitive expressions occur, as well as the
types of (cross-linguistic) variation allowed. The value of the
present volume lies in its inclusion of research papers inquiring into
various types of polarity-sensitive expressions, such as negative-,
positive-, and discourse-sensitive polarity items as well as their
variations. The research indicates new directions for the study of
polarity-sensitive expressions in the fields of syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and
psycholinguistics.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Typology

Written In: English (eng)



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