Negation and Polarity: Syntactic and Symantic Perspectives

This book provides a detailed exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory. Including new, specially commissioned work from some of the leading European, American, and Japanese scholars, Negation and Polarity covers all of the main approaches to this subject--syntactic, pragmatic, semantic, and cognitive--in a variety of language contexts.

• | Author: Laurence R. Horn
• | Publisher: OUP Oxford
• | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2000
• | Number of Pages: 282 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0198238738
• | ISBN-13: 9780198238737