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Publication details [#4927]

Horn, Laurence R. 1978. Some aspects of negation. In Greenberg, Joseph Harold, ed. Universals of human language. Stanford UP. pp. 127–210.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

implicature | language typology | negation | negative polarity item | presupposition

Annotation

Semantic-pragmatic account (using notions such as presupposition and implicature) of the functions of negation and negative polarity items in natural language, with examples from many different languages.