This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical res

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 n

This volume offers reviews of cross-linguistic research on the major classic issues in negation, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental li

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English lingui

This book is the first cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on an extensive and systematic language sample. Methodological issues, especially sampli