Acquisition Of Sentential Negation And Negative Concord
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Acquisition Of Sentential Negation And Negative Concord
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Author : Sumrah Arshad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Acquisition Of Sentential Negation And Negative Concord written by Sumrah Arshad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with categories.
It has been shown in this thesis that the expression of negation in children's naturalistic spoken speech is adult-like to an maximum extent (with 97% ratio of correct and grammatical expression). If a language exhibits NC in adult language, NC is also reflected in children's language. If a language does not exhibit the presence of NC in adult language input, the same will also be reflected in children's grammar until or unless there is a strong motivation to do otherwise. Based on the cross linguistic evidence gathered in this thesis, it is also argued that stages of the acquisition of neg...
Sentential Negation And Negative Concord
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Author : Hedzer Hugo Zeijlstra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Sentential Negation And Negative Concord written by Hedzer Hugo Zeijlstra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Dutch language categories.
The Expression Of Negation
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Author : Laurence R. Horn
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-05-27
The Expression Of Negation written by Laurence R. Horn and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Negation 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.
Negation And Clausal Structure
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Author : Raffaella Zanuttini
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-09-04
Negation And Clausal Structure written by Raffaella Zanuttini and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic competence provides a means to express sentential negation. This ability, however, may be expressed in different ways, as shown by the fact that individual languages employ different syntactic strategies for the expression of the same semantic function of negating a sentence. Zanuttini's goal here is to characterize the range of such variation by comparing the different syntactic means for expressing sentential negation exhibited by the members of one language family--the Romance languages--and by reducing the differences we witness to a constrained set of choices available to the particular grammars of these languages. This sort of analysis is a first step towards the ultimate goal of determining and understanding what limits there are on the syntactic options that universal grammar imposes on the expression of sentential negation.
The Loss Of Negative Concord In Standard English
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Author : Amel Kallel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-01-18
The Loss Of Negative Concord In Standard English written by Amel Kallel and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The loss of Negative Concord (NC) has long been attributed to external factors. This study readdresses this issue and provides evidence of the failure of certain external factors to account for the observed decline and ultimate disappearance of NC in Standard English. A detailed study of negation in Late Middle and Early Modern English reveals that the process of the decline of NC was a case of a natural change, preceded by a period of variation manifested in the obtained S-curves for all the contexts studied. Variation existed not only on the level of the speech community as a whole but also within individual speakers (contra Lightfoot, 1991). A close study of n-indefinites in negative contexts and their ultimate replacement with Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) in a number of grammatical environments shows that the decline of NC follows the same pattern across contexts in a form of parallel curvature, which indicates that the loss of NC is a natural process. However, this study reveals that the decline is not constant across time and thus the Constant Rate Hypothesis (Kroch, 1989) does not, in that respect, fully account for this change. Context behaviour suggests an alternative principle of linguistic change, the Context Constancy Principle. A Context Constancy Effect is obtained across all contexts indicating that the loss of NC is triggered by a change in a single underlying parameter setting. Accordingly, a theory-internal explanation is suggested. N-words underwent a lexical reanalysis whereby they acquired a new grammatical feature [+Neg] and were thus reinterpreted as negative quantifiers, rather than NPIs. This lexical reanalysis was triggered by the ambiguous status of n-words between [±Neg] and thus between single and double negative meanings. This change is treated as a case of parameter resetting as this lexical reanalysis affected a whole set of lexical items and can thus economically account for the different observed surface changes.
Meaning And Structure In Second Language Acquisition
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Author : Jacee Cho
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-10-15
Meaning And Structure In Second Language Acquisition written by Jacee Cho and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition, such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2016), the Scalpel Model (Slabakova, 2017), and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009) to name a few. The studies explore a variety of linguistic properties (e.g., functional morphology, linguistic properties at the syntax-discourse interface) by focusing on distinct populations (L2 acquisition, L3/LN acquisition, Heritage Speakers), while also considering the links between experimental linguistic research, generative linguistics, and, in some cases, language pedagogy. Dedicated to Roumyana Slabakova, each chapter can be directly linked to her work in terms of the empirical testing of extant hypotheses, the formulation of new models and ideas, and her efforts to advance the dialogue between different disciplines and frameworks. Overall, the contributions in the volume bear evidence of Slabakova’s enduring influence in the field as a collaborator, teacher, and researcher.
Negative Concord A Hundred Years On
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Author : Johan van der Auwera
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-11-18
Negative Concord A Hundred Years On written by Johan van der Auwera and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The concept of ‘negative concord’ refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You ain’t seen nothing yet. This book takes stock of what has been achieved since the notion was introduced in 1922 by Otto Jespersen and sets the agenda for future research, with an eye towards increased cross-fertilization between theoretical perspectives and methodological tools. Major issues include (i) How can formal and typological approaches complement each other in uncovering and accounting for cross-linguistic variation? (ii) How can corpus work steer theoretical analyses? (iii) What is the contribution of diachronic research to the theoretical debates?
The Syntax Of Negation
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Author : Liliane Haegeman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-03-30
The Syntax Of Negation written by Liliane Haegeman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Demonstrates sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework, showing parallelism between negative and interrogative sentences.
Negation And Negative Dependencies
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Author : Hedde Zeijlstra
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-20
Negation And Negative Dependencies written by Hedde Zeijlstra and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change. Negation is a universal property of natural language, but languages can significantly differ in how they express it: there is variation in the form and position of negative elements, the number of manifestations of negative morphemes, and in the restrictions on the use of Negative and Positive Polarity Items. In this volume, Hedde Zeijlstra explores the hypothesis that all known syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and lexical ways of encoding dependencies should be also be attested in the domain of negation, unless they are independently ruled out. He shows that the pluriform landscape of negative dependencies and markers of negation that emerges has broader implications for theories of syntax and semantics and their interface.
Negation In The History Of English
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Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-09-15
Negation In The History Of English written by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.