Negation and polarity
Subtitle: syntactic and semantic perspectives
By: edited by Laurence Horn and Yasuhiko Kato.
Contributors: Horn, Laurence R.; Katō, Yasuhiko.
Series: Oxford linguistics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Negatives; Polarity (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Semantics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Negation and polarity at the millennium / Laurence R. Horn and Yasuhiko Kato; title: Negative preposing, negative inversion, and the split CP / Liliane Haegeman; title: Interpretive asymmetries of negation / Yasuhiko Kato; title: Coordination, C-command, and 'logophoric' N-words / Ljiljana Progovac; title: Negative polarity items : triggering, scope, and C-command / Jack Hoeksema; title: Pick a theory (not just any theory) : indiscriminatives and the free-choice indefinite / Laurence R. Horn; title: The force of negation in 'wh' exclamatives and interrogatives / Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini; title: Thetic and categorical, stage and individual, weak and strong / Wiliam A. Ladusaw; title: Negative inference, space construal, and grammaticalization / Masa-aki Yamanashi.