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This collection of articles offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. As not much is known about negation systems in non-European languages, the primary aim of the volume is to provide data on various aspects of negation. (For all articles these data were collected on the basis of the same questionnaire). Most work on this subject deals with syntactic aspects of negation, whereas this volume includes pragmatic and semantic issues as well, such as the expression of negative indefinites, interaction of negation and quantifiers and the scope of negation in cases where there are several ways to express this. For a number of less-known languages descriptions offering a wealth of data are presented here. The articles about well-studied languages include new data and analyses of more complicated issues.

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Author:   Peter Kahrel ,  René van den Berg ,  Rene van den Berg
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   29
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9789027229199

ISBN 10:   9027229198
Pages:   385
Publication Date:   01 January 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Evenki (by Nedjalkov, Igor' V.); 3. Turkish (by Schaaik, Gerjan van); 4. Sentani (by Hartzler, Margaret); 5. Lewo (by Early, Robert); 6. Standard Mandarin (by Wiedenhof, Jeroen); 7. Zazaki (by Sandonato, Marie); 8. Hungarian (by Groot, Casper de); 9. Kresh (by Brown, Richard); 10. Babole (by Leitch, Miles); 11. Bafut (by Chumbow, Beban Sammy); 12. Berbrice Dutch (by Kouwenberg, Silvia); 13. Waorani (by Peeke, Catherine); 14. Nadeb (by Weir, E.M. Helen); 15. Tuyuca (by Barnes, Janet); 16. Wayampi (by Jensen, Allen A.); 17. Maya-Mam (by Collins, Wesley M.); 18. Genetic affiliations of the languages; 19. Regions and number of speakers of the languages; 20. Addresses of authors and editors

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