The Expression of Negation

by Laurence R. Horn (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110219302
Publisher:	De Gruyter Mouton
Publication date:	05/27/2010
Series:	Expression of Cognitive Categories [ECC] Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	343
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Laurence R. Horn, Yale University, New Haven, USA.

Editorial Reviews

"This work constitutes important reading for specialists on negation and those
interested in grammatical systems."
Pierre Larrivée in: Linguist List 21.5023

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