The Expression of Negation

Laurence R. Horn

ISBN 10: 3110219298 / ISBN 13: 9783110219296

Editore: De Gruyter Mouton, 2010

The Expression of Negation | Laurence R. Horn | Buch | VI | Englisch | 2010 | De Gruyter Mouton | EAN 9783110219296 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 101203326

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sugli autori:

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

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

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Titolo: The Expression of Negation
Casa editrice: De Gruyter Mouton
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu