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The Expression of Negation

By Laurence R. Horn

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2010
ISBN
3110219298, 9783110219296
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2301621 bytes)
Series
The Expression of Cognitive Categories
Edition
1
Pages
342\349
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-06-03 22:49:00

Description

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, and typological factors in negative expression.

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