The Grammar of Negation

The Grammar of Negation

Author: Jong-Bok Kim

Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 9781575862293

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A nonderivational, lexicalist analysis within the constraint-based framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.


The Expression of Negation

The Expression of Negation

Author: Laurence R. Horn

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 3110219298

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Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of negative sentences in a variety of languages and offers state-of-the-art surveys of the acquisition of negation by children, its processing by adults, its historical development, and its interaction with other operators and predicates within natural language sentences. Topics covered include the nature of negative polarity, the phenomenon of pleonastic or illogical negation, and the role of morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic.


The Oxford Handbook of Negation

The Oxford Handbook of Negation

Author: Viviane Déprez

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 889

ISBN-13: 0198830521

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This volume offers reviews of cross-linguistic research on the major classic issues in negation, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume will be an essential reference on the topic of negation for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines.


The Syntax of Negation

The Syntax of Negation

Author: Liliane Haegeman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-03-30

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0521464927

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Demonstrates sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework, showing parallelism between negative and interrogative sentences.


The Complete French Grammar Course

The Complete French Grammar Course

Author: Dylane Moreau

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-08-15

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Learn the French grammar with this easy French textbook full of examples and exercises! This course is divided into 7 chapters and includes 200 exercises and free video lessons for each point. The method is simple: start from a simple sentence and add slowly more elements to it. Then practice after each new element with one or more exercises.


The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers

The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers

Author: Karen De Clercq

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-06-08

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 150151377X

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This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation. Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope negation or constituent negation is hardly ever systematically discussed in the literature. The present book aims to fill that gap, by investigating scopally different negative markers in a sample of 23 typologically diverse languages. A four-way classification of negative markers is argued for and it is shown how meaningful syncretism patterns arise across those four groups of negative markers in the language sample investigated. The syncretisms are meaningful in that they track the natural semantic scope of negation, and provide support to the idea that morphology is not arbitrary, but points to submorphemic structure. Consequently, this study leads to a decomposition of the negative morpheme into five privative features: Tense, Focus, Classification, Quantity and Negation proper. Finally, the book argues that sentence, constituent and lexical negation can all be treated in the same module of the grammar, i.e. syntax.


Negation and Negative Concord

Negation and Negative Concord

Author: Viviane Déprez

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-12-15

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 9027263159

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While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.


The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-30

Total Pages: 1661

ISBN-13: 1316790665

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Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.


A Natural History of Negation

A Natural History of Negation

Author: Laurence R. Horn

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13:

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This book offers a unique synthesis of past and current work on the structure, meaning, and use of negation and negative expressions, a topic that has engaged thinkers from Aristotle and the Buddha to Freud and Chomsky. Horn's masterful study melds a review of scholarship in philosophy, psychology, and linguistics with original research, providing a full picture of negation in natural language and thought; this new edition adds a comprehensive preface and bibliography, surveying research since the book's original publication.