Perspectives on negation and polarity items
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Perspectives on negation and polarity items
（Linguistik aktuell, v. 40）
J. Benjamins, c2001
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Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Groningen, 1996
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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).
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Negative quantifier noun phrases: A typology and an acquisition hypothesis (by Atlas, Jay D.)
- 3. On the typology of negative modals (by Auwera, Johan van der)
- 4. Metalinguistic sentence negation in child English (by Drozd, Kenneth F.)
- 5. Lexical sensitivity in negative polarity verbs (by Falkenberg, Gabriel)
- 6. Varieties of polarity items and the (non)veridicality hypothesis (by Giannakidou, Anastasia)
- 7. Scalarity and polarity: A study of scalar adverbs as polarity items (by Hoeksema, Jack)
- 8. Flaubert triggers, squatitive negation, and other quirks of grammar (by Horn, Laurence R.)
- 9. On the monotonicity of polar adjectives (by Kennedy, Christopher)
- 10. Polarity sensitivity and collocational restrictions of adverbs of degree (by Klein, Henny)
- 11. Even-incorporated NPIs in Hindi definites and correlatives (by Lahiri, Utpal)
- 12. Perfective sentences under negation and durative adverbials: A double-jointed construction (by Mittwoch, Anita)
- 13. Negative polarity and the syntax of taboo (by Postma, Gertjan)
- 14. Neg-Raising: Negation as failure (by Tovena, Lucia M.)
- 15. Name index
- 16. Subject index
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