Negation and Negative Concord
Title | Negation and Negative Concord PDF eBook |
Author | Viviane Déprez |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2018-12-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027263159 |
While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.
The Oxford Handbook of Negation
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Negation PDF eBook |
Author | Viviane Déprez |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 889 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198830521 |
In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.
Negative Concord in English and Romance
Title | Negative Concord in English and Romance PDF eBook |
Author | Susagna Tubau Muntañá |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
Sentential Negation and Negative Concord
Title | Sentential Negation and Negative Concord PDF eBook |
Author | Hedzer Hugo Zeijlstra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Dutch language |
ISBN |
The Expression of Negation
Title | The Expression of Negation PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence R. Horn |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110219298 |
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.
Aspects of English Negation
Title | Aspects of English Negation PDF eBook |
Author | Yoko Iyeiri |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027232318 |
This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part "Aspects of Negation in the History of English" includes six contributions, that focus on the usages of the negative adverbs ne and not, the decline of negative concord, and the development of the auxiliary do in negation. Most of the themes discussed here are then linked to the second part "Aspects of Negation in Present-day English". Especially, the issue of negative concord is repeatedly explored by three of the five papers in this part, one related to British English dialects in general, another to Tyneside English, and the other to African American Vernacular English. This book uniquely highlights the importance of continuity from Old English to Present-day English, while, in its introduction, it provides a useful detailed survey of previous studies on English negation.
Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric
Title | Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric PDF eBook |
Author | Gréte Dalmi |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2024-06-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110754835 |
Expressing negation is a universal property of all human languages. There is considerable variation, however, in the exact ways negation materializes cross-linguistically. Strict Negative Concord differs both from the Negative Polarity Item strategy and the Asymmetric Negative Concord strategy in that the sentence becomes negative only if the sentence negator is overtly expressed in it, irrespective of how many negative expressions are used. The central aim of this book is to describe Strict Negative Concord in some Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages. In particular, the volume gives an insight into the forms Strict Negative Concord manifests itself in Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian (Slavic), Finnish, Hungarian, Mari (Finno-Ugric) and the closely related Selkup (Samoyedic) to a wide linguistic community. It aims to create a platform for comparison with similar phenomena in well-described European languages.