Negation and Polarity : Syntactic and Semantic Perspectives
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198238746
ISBN-13
9780198238744
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 3rd, 2000
Print length
282 Pages
Weight
554 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.20 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Semantics, discourse analysis, etcGrammar, syntax & morphologyCognition & cognitive psychology
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This book provides a detailed exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory. Including new, specially commissioned work from some of the leading European, American, and Japanese scholars, Negation and Polarity covers all of the main approaches to this subject–syntactic, pragmatic, semantic, and cognitive–in a variety of language contexts.
Negation is a central feature of language and cognition, interacting with all areas of grammar as well as with the philosophy of language. Whereas there is a cross-linguistic uniformity in logical and semantic aspects of negation, there is a diversity of syntactic and morphological forms and rules. This asymmetry in function and form poses problems for syntactic and universal grammar theory and for the study of the interface between syntax and discourse. It is particularly evident in negative polarity–words and phrases which can appear only in negative sentences. The exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory are the main themes of this book.
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