The Expression of Negation
Download or Read eBook The Expression of Negation PDF written by Laurence R. Horn and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Laurence R. Horn |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783110219296 |
| ISBN-13 | : 3110219298 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Expression of Negation by : Laurence R. Horn
Book excerpt: 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.
