Sentential Negation And Negative Concord
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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.
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.
Expression And Interpretation Of Negation
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Author : Henriëtte de Swart
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-05-03
Expression And Interpretation Of Negation written by Henriëtte de Swart and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This study in cross-linguistic semantics deploys the framework of bi-directional Optimality Theory to develop a typology of the relationship between syntax and semantics in negation markers and negation indefinites.
Aspects Of English Negation
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Author : Yoko Iyeiri
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Aspects Of English Negation written by Yoko Iyeiri and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part "Aspects of Negation in the History of English" includes six contributions, that focus on the usages of the negative adverbs ne and not, the decline of negative concord, and the development of the auxiliary do in negation. Most of the themes discussed here are then linked to the second part "Aspects of Negation in Present-day English". Especially, the issue of negative concord is repeatedly explored by three of the five papers in this part, one related to British English dialects in general, another to Tyneside English, and the other to African American Vernacular English. This book uniquely highlights the importance of continuity from Old English to Present-day English, while, in its introduction, it provides a useful detailed survey of previous studies on English negation.
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.
Negative Indefinites
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Author : Doris Penka
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
Negative Indefinites written by Doris Penka 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 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation.In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express a single negation), split readings (in which negative and indefinite parts take scope independently of each other), and the limited distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian languages - Doris Penka considers data from a wide range of languages and reviews the mostrecent literature on the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites. Her book will interest all linguists working on negation in particular and the syntax-semantics interface more generally.
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.
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...
The Verb Phrase In English
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Author : Bas Aarts
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-14
The Verb Phrase In English written by Bas Aarts 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 2013-02-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.
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?