Negation And Polarity Experimental Perspectives

Author : Pierre Larrivée,Chungmin Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319174648

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Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives by Pierre Larrivée,Chungmin Lee Pdf

This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various experimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French, Catalan and Korean along with analyses using semantic and pragmatic methods, corpus linguistics, diachronic perspectives and longitudinal acquisitional studies as well as signed and gestural negation. Each contribution is situated with regards to major previous studies, thereby offering readers insights on the current state of the art in research on negation and negative polarity, highlighting how theory and data together contributes to the understanding of cognition and mind.

Author : Malin Roitman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264947

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The Pragmatics of Negation by Malin Roitman Pdf

Negation is one of the most discussed phenomena within linguistics, on all language levels though it never seems to be exhausted. This operator establishes complex sentence structures and constantly challenges – from a cognitive, syntactical, semantic and morphologic viewpoint – presuppositions on language internal relations as rational and logic. It therefore arouses interest through all fields within language sciences. From a pragmatic perspective, where negation is conceived a marked structure, using negation often produces meanings beyond the one of a reversed affirmation "it is not the case that X”. This book explores the various uses and pragmatic meanings of negation in authentic communication, in different text types and in different languages, predominately romance languages. The multilingual composition marries a macro-micro perspective where aspects of genre, sociocultural context, memory, rhetoric and argumentation interplay with the negative morpheme’s nature and embedded instructions. This broad approach makes this book a unique contribution to negation studies and to pragmatics in general. The book is important and enriching reading for scholars in all linguistic domains, but particularly for researchers in semantics, pragmatics, argumentation and, discourse analysis.

Author : Chris Cummins,Napoleon Katsos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192509543

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The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics by Chris Cummins,Napoleon Katsos Pdf

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters in this volume offer an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning 31 different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. The volume's forward-looking approach also seeks to actively identify questions and methods that could be fruitfully combined in future experimental research. Written in a clear and accessible style, this handbook will appeal to students and scholars from advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields, including semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

Author : Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192566263

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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 : Andreas Dufter,Elisabeth Stark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110377088

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Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax by Andreas Dufter,Elisabeth Stark Pdf

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.

Author : Josep Quer,Roland Pfau,Annika Herrmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317624271

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The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research by Josep Quer,Roland Pfau,Annika Herrmann Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research bridges the divide between theoretical and experimental approaches to provide an up-to-date survey of key topics in sign language research. With 29 chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from around the world, this Handbook covers the following key areas: On the theoretical side, all crucial aspects of sign language grammar studied within formal frameworks such as Generative Grammar; On the experimental side, theoretical accounts are supplemented by experimental evidence gained in psycho- and neurolinguistic studies; On the descriptive side, the main phenomena addressed in the reviewed scholarship are summarized in a way that is accessible to readers without previous knowledge of sign languages. Each chapter features an introduction, an overview of existing research, and a critical assessment of hypotheses and findings. The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research is key reading for all advanced students and researchers working at the intersection of sign language research, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.

Author : Hideki Kishimoto,Osamu Sawada,Ikumi Imani
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110755121

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Polarity-Sensitive Expressions by Hideki Kishimoto,Osamu Sawada,Ikumi Imani Pdf

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.

Author : Gréte Dalmi,Jacek Witkoś,Piotr Cegłowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110754865

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Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric by Gréte Dalmi,Jacek Witkoś,Piotr Cegłowski Pdf

Expressing negation is a universal property of all human languages. There is considerable variation, however, in the exact ways negation materializes cross-linguistically. Strict Negative Concord differs both from the Negative Polarity Item strategy and the Asymmetric Negative Concord strategy in that the sentence becomes negative only if the sentence negator is overtly expressed in it, irrespective of how many negative expressions are used. The central aim of this book is to describe Strict Negative Concord in some Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages. In particular, the volume gives an insight into the forms Strict Negative Concord manifests itself in Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian (Slavic), Finnish, Hungarian, Mari (Finno-Ugric) and the closely related Selkup (Samoyedic) to a wide linguistic community. It aims to create a platform for comparison with similar phenomena in well-described European languages.

Author : Valentina Cuccio,Erin Wilkinson,Brigitte Garcia,Adam Schembri,Erin Moriarty,Sabina Fontana
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832505342

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Sign Language Research Sixty Years Later: Current and Future Perspectives by Valentina Cuccio,Erin Wilkinson,Brigitte Garcia,Adam Schembri,Erin Moriarty,Sabina Fontana Pdf

Author : Susagna Tubau,Urtzi Etxeberria,Viviane Marie Deprez,M.Teresa Espinal
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889663743

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What are (Un)Acceptability and (Un)Grammaticality? How do They Relate to One Another and to Interpretation? by Susagna Tubau,Urtzi Etxeberria,Viviane Marie Deprez,M.Teresa Espinal Pdf

Author : Angeliki Athanasiadou,Herbert L. Colston
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110652246

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The Diversity of Irony by Angeliki Athanasiadou,Herbert L. Colston Pdf

Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy. The present volume, together with a 2017 collection by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston, aims to the further exploration of verbal and situational irony, its gestural accompaniments, its comprehension and interpretation, its constructional diversity and its cooperation with other figures such as metaphor and hyperbole. The present volume is a highly interesting collection of chapters dealing with both theoretical investigations and descriptive applications of a central figure pervading human thought and language. Its aim is to draw more attention to irony’s diversity and its concomitant connections to other aspects of figurativeness.

Author : Hedde Zeijlstra
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9780198833239

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Negation and Negative Dependencies by Hedde Zeijlstra Pdf

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change. Negation is a universal property of natural language, but languages can significantly differ in how they express it:there is variation in the form and position of negative elements, the number of manifestations of negative morphemes, and in the restrictions on the use of Negative and Positive Polarity Items. In this volume, Hedde Zeijlstra explores the hypothesis that all known syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, andlexical ways of encoding dependencies should be also be attested in the domain of negation, unless they are independently ruled out. He shows that the pluriform landscape of negative dependencies and markers of negation that emerges has broader implications for theories of syntax and semantics andtheir interface.

Author : Silvio Cruschina,Katharina Hartmann,Eva-Maria Remberger
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847005605

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Studies on Negation by Silvio Cruschina,Katharina Hartmann,Eva-Maria Remberger Pdf

Negation ist eine universelle Eigenschaft der menschlichen Sprache. Als primäre Disziplin der Logik tritt Negation in typologisch unterschiedlichsten Erscheinungsformen auf und spielt eine große Rolle für die Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle. Mit diesem Band soll die umfassende Forschungsliteratur zur Negation durch eine Reihe von aktuellen Studien ergänzt werden. Alle Beiträge beziehen sich auf Fragen oder Kontroversen, die sich mit der Syntax, Semantik und Variation negativer Elemente befassen, und gehen von der Annahme aus, dass ein grundlegendes Verständnis der verschiedenen Realisierungen der Negation zentral für unser Grammatikverständnis ist. Die hier veröffentlichten Beiträge berücksichtigen verschiedene Herangehensweisen und eine Vielfalt empirischer und analytischer Details. Negation is a universal feature of human language that is inherently logical in nature, presents typologically diverse manifestations, and plays a fundamental role in the mapping between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation. The aim of this volume is to complement the vast body of research literature by offering a set of cutting-edge studies on negation. All the contributions are related to recent questions bearing on the syntax and semantics of negative elements and the variation in their form, and follow the central assumption that a proper understanding of the multifaceted expression of negation is central to our understanding of the grammar as a whole. With this in mind, different approaches and a variety of empirical and analytic details have been included in this volume.

Author : Anne Breitbarth,Christopher Lucas,David Willis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199602544

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

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The aim of both volumes is to set out an integrated framework for understanding the syntax of negation and how it changes. While the first volume (OUP, 2013) presented linked case studies of particular languages and language groups, this second volume constructs a holistic approach to explaining the patterns of historical change found in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean over the last millennium. It identifies typical developments found repeatedly in the histories of different languages and explores their origins, as well as investigating the factors that determine whether change proceeds rapidly, slowly, or not at all. Language-internal factors such as the interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and the biases inherent in child language acquisition, are investigated alongside language-external factors such as imposition, convergence, and borrowing. The book proposes an explicit formal account of language-internal and contact-induced change for both the expression of sentential negation ('not') and negative indefinites ('anyone', 'nothing'). It sheds light on the major ways in which negative systems develop, on the nature of syntactic change, and indeed on linguistic change more generally, demonstrating the insights that large-scale comparison of linguistic histories can offer.

Author : Lori Repetti,Francisco Ordóñez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263896

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14 by Lori Repetti,Francisco Ordóñez Pdf

This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology, phonology, semantics, sociolinguistics, and syntax can be found in its pages. This collection will be of interest to Romance linguists and general linguists as well.