Expression of Negation

Horn, Laurence R. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 311025316X / ISBN 13: 9783110253160

Verlag: Walter de Gruyter, 2011

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 12682379-n

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Laurence R. Horn, Yale University, New Haven, USA.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Expression of Negation
Verlag: Walter de Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New