Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items
Editors
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
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Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. vii–xi
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Negative quantifier noun phrases: A typology and an acquisition hypothesisJay D. Atlas | pp. 1–22
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On the typology of negative modalsJohan van der Auwera | pp. 23–48
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Metalinguistic sentence negation in child EnglishKenneth F. Drozd | pp. 49–78
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Lexical sensitivity in negative polarity verbsGabriel Falkenberg | pp. 79–97
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Varieties of polarity items and the (non)veridicality hypothesisAnastasia Giannakidou | pp. 99–127
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Scalarity and polarity: A study of scalar adverbs as polarity itemsJack Hoeksema and Hotze Rullmann | pp. 129–171
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Flaubert triggers, squatitive negation, and other quirks of grammarLaurence R. Horn | pp. 173–200
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On the monotonicity of polar adjectivesChristopher Kennedy | pp. 201–221
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Polarity sensitivity and collocational restrictions of adverbs of degreeHenny Klein | pp. 223–236
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Even-incorporated NPIs in Hindi definites and correlativesUtpal Lahiri | pp. 237–264
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Perfective sentences under negation and durative adverbials: A double-jointed constructionAnita Mittwoch | pp. 265–282
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Negative polarity and the syntax of tabooGertjan Postma | pp. 283–330
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Neg-Raising: Negation as failureLucia M. Tovena | pp. 331–356
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Name index | pp. 357–361
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Subject index | pp. 363–366
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BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General