ENGLISH

Meaning and Negation

By Steven B. Smith

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
1978
ISBN
9783110801279, 9789027932778
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6892552 bytes)
Series
Janua Linguarum. Series Minor; 206
Edition
2nd printing. Reprint 2015
Pages
91\92
Time added
2023-05-30 04:35:45

Description

Acknowledgements Chapter 1 1.1. Introduction 1.2. G.Lakoff’s analysis 1.3. Objections to Lakoff’s analysis 1.4. An analysis of adverbials of duration 1.5. Syntactic considerations 1.5.1. “Any” 1.5.2. “If not” 1.5.3. Sentence negation 1.5.4. Preposing 1.6. Conclusions Chapter 2 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Relations of inclusion 2.2.1. Terminology 2.2.2. “At least” 2.2.3. “Only ” 2.2.4. “But” 2.2.5. “Much less” 2.3. Conclusions Chapter 3 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Negative idioms 3.3. Bounded quantification 3.4. Some rules of implication 3.5. “Not many” 3.6. Carden’s analysis 3.7. Heny’s proposal 3.8. NEG-raising 3.9. Objections to NEG-raising 3.10. Believe and bounded quantification 3.11. Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index

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