Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items

Editors

Jack Hoeksema | University of Groningen

Hotze Rullmann | University of Groningen

Víctor Sánchez-Valencia | University of Groningen

Ton van der Wouden | University of Groningen

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Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behavior of negation. Negation, being one of the prevalent features of any human language, has many facets of interest to linguists, psychologists and philosophers alike. In recent years, much attention has been paid to the complicated distributional patterns of polarity items. Many of the contributions in this volume are devoted to the study of one or more of these items in langages such as English (Laurence Horn, Anita Mittwoch, Chris Kennedy), Dutch (Jack Hoeksema and Hotze Rullmann, Henny Klein, Gertjan Postma), German (Gabriel Falkenberg), Hindi (Utpal Lahiri) and Greek (Anastasia Giannakidou). In addition, some general issues surrounding negation are addressed, such as the characterization of the notion “strength of negation” (Jay Atlas), the problem of NEG-raising (Lucia Tovena), the interaction of negation and modality (Johan van der Auwera) and the acquisition of negation (Kenneth Drozd).

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 40] 2001. xii, 368 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.40

Table of Contents

Introduction | pp. vii–xi

Negative quantifier noun phrases: A typology and an acquisition hypothesis

Jay D. Atlas | pp. 1–22

On the typology of negative modals

Johan van der Auwera | pp. 23–48

Metalinguistic sentence negation in child English

Kenneth F. Drozd | pp. 49–78

Lexical sensitivity in negative polarity verbs

Gabriel Falkenberg | pp. 79–97

Varieties of polarity items and the (non)veridicality hypothesis

Anastasia Giannakidou | pp. 99–127

Scalarity and polarity: A study of scalar adverbs as polarity items

Jack Hoeksema and Hotze Rullmann | pp. 129–171

Flaubert triggers, squatitive negation, and other quirks of grammar

Laurence R. Horn | pp. 173–200

On the monotonicity of polar adjectives

Christopher Kennedy | pp. 201–221

Polarity sensitivity and collocational restrictions of adverbs of degree

Henny Klein | pp. 223–236

Even-incorporated NPIs in Hindi definites and correlatives

Utpal Lahiri | pp. 237–264

Perfective sentences under negation and durative adverbials: A double-jointed construction

Anita Mittwoch | pp. 265–282

Negative polarity and the syntax of taboo

Gertjan Postma | pp. 283–330

Neg-Raising: Negation as failure

Lucia M. Tovena | pp. 331–356

Name index | pp. 357–361

Subject index | pp. 363–366

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Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Semantics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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ONIX 2.1

ONIX 3.0

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