Negation and Negative Dependencies
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; 80;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 October 2022
- ISBN 9780198833239
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 240x160x30 mm
- Weight 866 g
- Language English 229
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Short description:
This book presents a novel account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change. The pluriform landscape of negative dependencies and markers of negation that emerges is shown to have broader implications for theories of syntax and semantics and their interface.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Part I. Introduction and Outline
Negation and negative dependencies
Outline: The pluriform landscape of negative dependencies
Part II. Negative Concord and Negative Quantifiers
Negative Concord is syntactic agreement
Types of Negative Concord systems
The flexibility of negative features
Diachronic developments in the domain of negation and NC
Negative Indefinites and split-scope readings
Neg-raising
Intermezzo. The landscape of polarity-sensitive elements: Convergence vs divergence
Part III. Polarity-Sensitivity
Strong vs weak Negative Polarity Items
Other types of NPIs
Not a light negation
Universal Quantifier PPIs
The landscape of PPIs
Negation and clause types
Part IV. Conclusions, Open Questions, and Avenues for Further Research
Conclusions and open questions
Avenues for further research
References
Index
