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OverviewNegation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negation that makes us human, imbuing us with the capacity to deny, to contradict, to misrepresent, to lie, and to convey irony. The apparent simplicity of logical negation as a one-place operator that toggles truth and falsity belies the intricate complexity of the expression of negation in natural language. Not only do we find negative adverbs, verbs, copulas, quantifiers, and affixes, but the interaction of negation with other operators (including multiple iterations of negation itself) can be exceedingly complex to describe, extending (as first detailed by Otto Jespersen) to negative concord, negative incorporation, and the widespread occurrence of negative polarity items whose distribution is subject to principles of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters in this book survey the patterning of negative utterances in natural languages, spanning such foundational issues as how negative sentences are realized cross-linguistically and how that realization tends to change over time, how negation is acquired by children, how it is processed by adults, and how its expression changes over time. Specific chapters offer focused empirical studies of negative polarity, pleonastic negation, and negative/quantifier scope interaction, as well as detailed examinations of the form and function of sentential negation in modern Romance languages and Classical Japanese. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laurence R. HornPublisher: De Gruyter Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton Volume: 4 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.641kg ISBN: 9783110219296ISBN 10: 3110219298 Pages: 349 Publication Date: 19 May 2010 Recommended Age: College Graduate Student Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews""This work constitutes important reading for specialists on negation and thoseinterested in grammatical systems.""Pierre Larrivee in: Linguist List 21.5023 This 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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