Expression of Negation
"Human thought and action is fundamentally shaped by a small set of cognitive categories, such as time, space, causality, or possession. It is not surprising, therefore, that all natural languages have developed many devices to express these categories. Temporality, for example, is reflected in the lexical meaning of verbs, in grammatical marking of tense and aspect, in time adverbials, in special particles, and in the application of discourse principles. Many of these devices have been the...
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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.
Introduction Laurence R. Horn Horn, Laurence R. 1Typology of negation Osten Dahl Dahl, Osten 9The Acquisition of negation Christine Dimroth Dimroth, Christine 39On the diachrony of negation Johan van der Auwera van der Auwera, Johan 73Multiple negation in English and other languages Laurence R. Horn Horn, Laurence R. 111Quantifier-negation interaction in English: A corpus linguistic study of all...not constructions Anja Neukom-Hermann Neukom-Hermann, Anja 149Negative and positive polarity items: An investigation of the interplay of lexical meaning and global conditions on expression Jack Hoeksema Hoeksema, Jack 187Negation as a metaphor-inducing operator Pnina Stern Stern, Pnina 225Negation in Classical Japanese Yasuhiko Kato Kato, Yasuhiko 257Negation in the new millennium: A bibliography Laurence R. Horn Horn, Laurence R. 287Contributors 331Index of subjects 333Index of languages 335Index of persons 337
