Negation and Polarity: Syntactic and Semantic Perspectives

by Laurence R. Horn (Editor), Yasuhiko Kato (Editor)

Overview

This book provides a detailed exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory. Including new, specially commissioned work from some of the leading European, American, and Japanese scholars, Negation and Polarity covers all of the main approaches to this subject—syntactic, pragmatic, semantic, and cognitive—in a variety of language contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198238744
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/12/2000
Series:	Oxford Linguistics Series
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Laurence R. Horn is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. His primary research interest is located within the union (if not the intersection) of traditional logic, neo-Gricean pragmatic theory, lexical semantics, and the analysis of negation.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Laurence J. Horn and Yasuhiko KatoNegation and Polarity at the Millennium2. Negative Preposing, Negative Inversion, and the Split CP, Liliane Haegeman3. Interpretive Asymmetries of Negation, Yasuhiko Kato4. Coordination, C-Command, and 'Logophoric' N-Words, Ljiljana Progovac5. Negative Polarity Items, Jack HoeksemaTriggering, Scope, and C-Command6. Pick a Theory (any Theory), Laurence R. HornIndiscriminatives and the Free-Choice Indefinite7. The Force of Negation in Wh Exclamatives and Interrogatives, Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini8. Thetic and Categorical, Stage and Individual, Weak and Strong, William A. Ladusaw9. Negative Inference, Space Construal, and Grammaticalization, Masa-aki Yamanashi