The Expression of Negation
Laurence R. Horn
Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of negative sentences in a variety of languages and offers state-of-the-art surveys of the acquisition of negation by children, its processing by adults, its historical development, and its interaction with other operators and predicates within natural language sentences. Topics covered include the nature of negative polarity, the phenomenon of pleonastic or illogical negation, and the role of morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and typological factors in negative expression.
類別:
年:
2010
版本:
1
出版商:
De Gruyter Mouton
語言:
english
頁數:
342
ISBN 10:
3110219298
ISBN 13:
9783110219296
系列:
The Expression of Cognitive Categories
文件:
PDF, 2.19 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010