Negation And Negative Concord

Author : Viviane Déprez,Fabiola Henri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263155

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Negation and Negative Concord by Viviane Déprez,Fabiola Henri Pdf

While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.

Author : Hedzer Hugo Zeijlstra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dutch language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114750271

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Sentential Negation and Negative Concord by Hedzer Hugo Zeijlstra Pdf

Author : Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198830528

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The Oxford Handbook of Negation by Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal Pdf

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.

Author : Susagna Tubau Muntañá
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122584605

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Negative Concord in English and Romance by Susagna Tubau Muntañá Pdf

Author : Laurence R. Horn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219296

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The Expression of Negation by Laurence R. Horn Pdf

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.

Author : Yoko Iyeiri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027232311

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Aspects of English Negation by Yoko Iyeiri Pdf

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.

Author : Agnes Jäger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291554

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History of German Negation by Agnes Jäger Pdf

This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German. It addresses both the development of the negation particles as well as the diachrony of indefinites in the scope of negation and the phenomenon of Negative Concord. Being based on a corpus study of several Old and Middle High German texts, it comprises a wealth of historical examples with additional comparison to Modern Standard German and dialects, as well as crosslinguistic data from a variety of languages. The findings are placed in the context of typological research and are analysed in terms of current syntactic and semantic theory of negation arguing for an unchanged underlying syntactic structure, with changes in the lexical filling of NegP and in the lexical features of indefinites resulting in crucial changes in the syntactic patterns of negation. This book is of interest to scholars of German linguistics, historical linguists, as well as anyone working in the field of negation.

Author : Phillip Wallage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107114296

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Negation in Early English by Phillip Wallage Pdf

This book presents an overview and analysis of negation in early English, using corpus data to track its development over time.

Author : Doris Penka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199567263

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Negative Indefinites by Doris Penka Pdf

In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation.In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express a single negation), split readings (in which negative and indefinite parts take scope independently of each other), and the limited distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian languages - Doris Penka considers data from a wide range of languages and reviews the mostrecent literature on the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites. Her book will interest all linguists working on negation in particular and the syntax-semantics interface more generally.

Author : Henriëtte de Swart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789048131631

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Expression and Interpretation of Negation by Henriëtte de Swart Pdf

This study in cross-linguistic semantics deploys the framework of bi-directional Optimality Theory to develop a typology of the relationship between syntax and semantics in negation markers and negation indefinites.

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,Gunnel Tottie,Wim van der Wurff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110161982

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Negation in the History of English by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,Gunnel Tottie,Wim van der Wurff Pdf

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. For further publications in English linguistics see also our Dialects of English book series. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Author : Ton van der Wouden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134773336

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Negative Contexts by Ton van der Wouden Pdf

This research emphasizes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic considerations illustrating a wide array of linguistic approaches. Written from within the theoretical framework of Generalized Quantifiers, the three main areas considered are collocations, polarity items and multiple negations.

Author : Chris Collins,Paul M. Postal
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262027311

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Classical NEG Raising by Chris Collins,Paul M. Postal Pdf

In this book, Chris Collins and Pauk Postal consider examples such the one below on the interpretation where Nancy thinks that this course is not interesting: Nancy doesn't think this course is interesting. They argue such examples instantiate a kind of syntactic raising that they term Classical NEG Raising. This involves the raising of a NEG (negation) from the embedded clause to the matrix clause. Collins and Postal develop three main arguments to support their claim. First, they show that Classical NEG Raising obeys island constraints. Second, they document that a syntactic raising analysis predicts both the grammaticality and particular properties of what they term Horn clauses (named for Laurence Horn, who discovered them). Finally, they argue that the properties of certain parenthetical structures strongly support the syntactic character of Classical NEG Raising. Collins and Postal also offer a detailed analysis of the main argument in the literature against a syntactic raising analysis (which they call the Composed Quantifier Argument). They show that the facts appealed to in this argument not only fail to conflict with their approach but actually support a syntactic view. In the course of their argument, Collins and Postal touch on a variety of related topics, including the syntax of negative polarity items, the status of sequential negation, and the scope of negative quantifiers. Chris Collins is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. Paul M. Postal is the author of many books, including On Raising and Edge-Based Clausal Syntax (both published by the MIT Press) Collins and Postal are coauthors of Imposters: A Study of Pronominal Agreement (MIT Press). Book jacket.

Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521464925

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The Syntax of Negation by Liliane Haegeman Pdf

Demonstrates sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework, showing parallelism between negative and interrogative sentences.

Author : David Willis,Christopher Lucas,Anne Breitbarth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199602537

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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by David Willis,Christopher Lucas,Anne Breitbarth Pdf

This is the first of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It examines the development of sentential negation and negative indefinites and quantifiers in languages and language groups such as Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic.