Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives

Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives
Author: Pierre Larrivée
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319174649

This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various experimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French, Catalan and Korean along with analyses using semantic and pragmatic methods, corpus linguistics, diachronic perspectives and longitudinal acquisitional studies as well as signed and gestural negation. Each contribution is situated with regards to major previous studies, thereby offering readers insights on the current state of the art in research on negation and negative polarity, highlighting how theory and data together contributes to the understanding of cognition and mind.

Polarity-Sensitive Expressions

Polarity-Sensitive Expressions
Author: Hideki Kishimoto, Osamu Sawada, Ikumi Imani
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 3110755211

The Diversity of Irony

The Diversity of Irony
Author: Angeliki Athanasiadou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110652242

Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy. The present volume, together with a 2017 collection by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston, aims to the further exploration of verbal and situational irony, its gestural accompaniments, its comprehension and interpretation, its constructional diversity and its cooperation with other figures such as metaphor and hyperbole. The present volume is a highly interesting collection of chapters dealing with both theoretical investigations and descriptive applications of a central figure pervading human thought and language. Its aim is to draw more attention to irony’s diversity and its concomitant connections to other aspects of figurativeness.

Negation and Negative Dependencies

Negation and Negative Dependencies
Author: Hedde Zeijlstra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2022-10
Genre: Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN: 0198833237

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, andlexical 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 andtheir interface.

The Oxford Handbook of Negation

The Oxford Handbook of Negation
Author: Viviane Déprez
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 889
Release: 2020-03-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192566261

In this volume, 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. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.

Studies on Negation

Studies on Negation
Author: Silvio Cruschina
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 384700560X

Negation ist eine universelle Eigenschaft der menschlichen Sprache. Als primäre Disziplin der Logik tritt Negation in typologisch unterschiedlichsten Erscheinungsformen auf und spielt eine große Rolle für die Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle. Mit diesem Band soll die umfassende Forschungsliteratur zur Negation durch eine Reihe von aktuellen Studien ergänzt werden. Alle Beiträge beziehen sich auf Fragen oder Kontroversen, die sich mit der Syntax, Semantik und Variation negativer Elemente befassen, und gehen von der Annahme aus, dass ein grundlegendes Verständnis der verschiedenen Realisierungen der Negation zentral für unser Grammatikverständnis ist. Die hier veröffentlichten Beiträge berücksichtigen verschiedene Herangehensweisen und eine Vielfalt empirischer und analytischer Details. Negation is a universal feature of human language that is inherently logical in nature, presents typologically diverse manifestations, and plays a fundamental role in the mapping between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation. The aim of this volume is to complement the vast body of research literature by offering a set of cutting-edge studies on negation. All the contributions are related to recent questions bearing on the syntax and semantics of negative elements and the variation in their form, and follow the central assumption that a proper understanding of the multifaceted expression of negation is central to our understanding of the grammar as a whole. With this in mind, different approaches and a variety of empirical and analytic details have been included in this volume.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14
Author: Lori Repetti
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2018-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027263892

This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology, phonology, semantics, sociolinguistics, and syntax can be found in its pages. This collection will be of interest to Romance linguists and general linguists as well.

Negative Concord: A Hundred Years On

Negative Concord: A Hundred Years On
Author: Johan van der Auwera
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2024-11-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111202275

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

The Syntax of Negation
Author: Liliane Haegeman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 1995-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521464927

Demonstrates sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework, showing parallelism between negative and interrogative sentences.

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean
Author: Anne Breitbarth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199602549

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It identifies typical developments found repeatedly in the histories of different languages and explores their origins, as well as investigating the factors that determine whether change proceeds rapidly, slowly, or not at all.