Negation and Polarity: Syntactic and Symantic Perspectives (Oxford Linguistics) - Softcover

 
9780198238737: Negation and Polarity: Syntactic and Symantic Perspectives (Oxford Linguistics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0198238738 ISBN 13: 9780198238737
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Laurence R. Horn is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. His primary research interest is located within the union (if not the intersection) of traditional logic, neo-Gricean pragmatic theory, lexical semantics, and the analysis of negation.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198238738
ISBN 13 
9780198238737
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
282
Editor
Horn Laurence R., Kato Yasuhiko