Perspectives on negation and polarity items

Perspectives on negation and polarity items / edited by Jack Hoeksema, Hotze Rullmann, Victor Sanchez-Valencia, Ton Van Der Wouden, University of Groningen

This study hypothesises that neg-raising is a cognitive phenomenon which arises while the human mind is processing the content of the sentence under the normal assumption of closed world. A 'neg-raised sentence' conveys an epistemic attitude towards the proposition expressed by the subordi...

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Other Authors: Hoeksema, Jacob, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., [2001]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 40.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives > Congresses.
Polarity (Linguistics) > Congresses.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives
Polarity (Linguistics)
Polariteit (taalkunde)
Ontkenningen (taalkunde)
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Negative quantifier noun phrases: a typology and an acquisition hypothesis / Jay D. Atlas
  • On the typology of negative modals / Johan van der Auwera
  • Metalinguistic sentence negation in child English / Kenneth F. Drozd
  • Lexical sensitivity in negative polarity verbs / Gabriel Falkenberg
  • Varieties of polarity items and the (non)veridicality hypothesis / Anastasia Giannakidou
  • Scalarity and polarity: A study of scalar adverbs as polarity items / Jack Hoeksema and Hotze Rullmann
  • Flaubert triggers, squatitive negation, and other quirks of grammar / Laurence R. Horn
  • On the monotonicity of polar adjectives / Christopher Kennedy
  • Polarity sensitivity and collocational restrictions of adverbs of degree / Henny Klein
  • Even-incorporated NPIs in Hindi definites and correlatives / Utpal Lahiri
  • Perfective sentences under negation and durative adverbials: a double-jointed construction / Anita Mittwoch
  • Negative polarity and the syntax of taboo / Gertjan Postma
  • Neg-raising: negation as failure / L.M. Tovena

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