The Oxford handbook of negation / edited by Viviane Déprez and M. Teresa Espinal.

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English
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Specialized.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2020).
Contents
  • Negation and opposition: contradiction and contrariety in logic and language / Laurence R. Horn
  • Affixal negation / Shrikant Joshi
  • Negative predicates: Incorporated negation / Jacques Moeschler
  • Negative quantifiers / Hedde Zeijlstra
  • Negative fragment answers / Andrew Weir
  • Calculating the scope of negation: Interaction of negation with quantifiers / Nicholas Fleisher
  • Modals and negation / Naomi Francis, Sabine Iatridou
  • Negation in event semantics / Barry Schein
  • Negation and alternatives: Interaction with focus constituents / Anamaria Fălăuş
  • Intervention effects with negation / Clemens Mayr
  • Types of negation / Karen De Clercq
  • Metalinguistic negation / Ana Maria Martins
  • Denial / David Ripley
  • Negation and presupposition / David Beaver, Kristin Denlinger
  • Negative Polarity Items / Lucia M. Tovena
  • Minimizers and maximizers as different types of polarity items / Susagna Tubau
  • Negative concord and the nature of negative concord items / Anastasia Giannakidou
  • Double negation readings / Henriëtte de Swart
  • Quantitative studies of the use of negative (dependent) expressions / Phillip Wallage
  • Negation in non-standard varieties / Christina Tortora, Frances Blanchette
  • The typology of negation / Johan van der Auwera, Olga Krasnoukhova
  • The negative cycle and beyond / Anne Breitbarth
  • Evolution of negative dependencies / Chiara Gianollo
  • The role of pragmatics in negation change / Pierre Larrivée
  • Understanding negation: Issues in the processing of negation / Barbara Kaup, Carolin Dudschig
  • Negation, prosody, and gesture / Pilar Prieto, M. Teresa Espinal
  • Negation and first language acquisition / Rosalind Thornton
  • Acquisition of negation: L2 and beyond / Liliana Sánchez, Jennifer Austin
  • Negation and the brain: Experiments in health and in focal brain disease, and their theoretical implications / Yosef Grodzinsky, Virginia Jaichenco, Isabelle Deschamps, María Elina Sánchez, Martín Fuchs, Peter Pieperhoff, Yonatan Loewenstein, Katrin Amunts
  • Precursors of negation in non-verbal infants / Jean-Rémy Hochmann
  • The morpho-syntactic nature of the negative marker / Chiara Gianollo
  • Evolutionary precursors of negation in non-human reasoning / Manuel Bohn, Josep Call, Christoph J. Völter
  • Negative polarity illusions / Hanna Muller, Colin Phillips
  • Individual differences in processing of negative operators: Implications for bilinguals / Veena D. Dwivedi
  • The neurobiology of lexical and sentential negation / Liuba Papeo, Manuel de Vega
  • Neg-raising / Laurence R. Horn
  • The neurology of negation: fMRI, ERP, and aphasia / Ken Ramshøj Christensen
  • The possible positioning of negation / Cecilia Poletto
  • Negation and constituent ordering: Case studies / Elizabeth Pearce
  • The expression of negation in sign languages / Josep Quer
  • Form and function of negative, tag, and rhetorical questions / Maribel Romero
  • Expletive negation / Denis Delfitto.
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Negation
ISBN
  • 0-19-256627-X
  • 0-19-256626-1
  • 0-19-186871-X
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