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The Expression of Negation (Hardcover)
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The Expression of Negation (Hardcover)
Series: The Expression of Cognitive Categories (ECC)
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Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent
from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many
ways, it is negation that makes us human, imbuing us with the
capacity to deny, to contradict, to misrepresent, to lie, and to
convey irony. The apparent simplicity of logical negation as a
one-place operator that toggles truth and falsity belies the
intricate complexity of the expression of negation in natural
language. Not only do we find negative adverbs, verbs, copulas,
quantifiers, and affixes, but the interaction of negation with
other operators (including multiple iterations of negation itself)
can be exceedingly complex to describe, extending (as first
detailed by Otto Jespersen) to negative concord, negative
incorporation, and the widespread occurrence of negative polarity
items whose distribution is subject to principles of syntax,
semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters in this book survey the
patterning of negative utterances in natural languages, spanning
such foundational issues as how negative sentences are realized
cross-linguistically and how that realization tends to change over
time, how negation is acquired by children, how it is processed by
adults, and how its expression changes over time. Specific chapters
offer focused empirical studies of negative polarity, pleonastic
negation, and negative/quantifier scope interaction, as well as
detailed examinations of the form and function of sentential
negation in modern Romance languages and Classical Japanese.
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