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OverviewNegation 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of Linguistics Laurence R Horn (Yale University)Publisher: Walter de Gruyter Imprint: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9781282673052ISBN 10: 128267305 Pages: 343 Publication Date: 01 January 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThis work constitutes important reading for specialists on negation and thoseinterested in grammatical systems. Pierre Larriv e in: Linguist List 21.5023 Author InformationLaurence R. Horn, Yale University, New Haven, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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