Negative Contexts: Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation

by Ton van der Wouden

Overview

This research emphasizes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic considerations illustrating a wide array of linguistic approaches. Written from within the theoretical framework of Generalized Quantifiers, the three main areas considered are collocations, polarity items and multiple negations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134773329
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Series:	Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	526 KB

About the Author

Ton van der Wouden has previously held research positions in computational linguistics, computational lexicography and theoretical linguistics and has published in these fields. He has recently been a visiting scholar at Yale University and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Groningen.

Table of Contents

Preface Part I Collocations 1 Introduction to Part I 2 First orientation 3 Lexical items 4 The nature of collocational restrictions 5 Combinability 6 The idiosyncrasy of collocations 7 Summary and concluding remarks Part II Polarity items 1 Introduction to Part II 3 What is a negative context? 4 Degrees of negativity 5 Negations and polarity items: towards a classification 6 Negative contexts and downward monotonicity 7 Some remarks on scope 8 Conclusion: polarity items Part III Multiple negations 1 Introduction to Part III 2 Negative concord 3 Weakening of negation: litotes 4 Denial 5 Emphatic negation 6 Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

A textbook for advanced courses on negation, polarity licensing, and the syntax-semantics interface. One of the main claims of the text is that its three topics are closely related. Arrangement is in three sections addressing the general problem of collocation, specific lexical items showing collocational behavior, and the argument that the formal apparatus used to describe and explain the behavior of polarity items is also applicable to and useful to describe and explain other phenomena in natural language. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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