Overview

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change. Negation is a universal property of natural language, but languages can significantly differ in how they express it: there is variation in the form and position of negative elements, the number of manifestations of negative morphemes, and in the restrictions on the use of Negative and Positive Polarity Items. In this volume, Hedde Zeijlstra explores the hypothesis that all known syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and lexical ways of encoding dependencies should be also be attested in the domain of negation, unless they are independently ruled out. He shows that the pluriform landscape of negative dependencies and markers of negation that emerges has broader implications for theories of syntax and semantics and their interface.

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Author:   Hedde Zeijlstra (Professor of English Linguistics and Theory of Grammar, Professor of English Linguistics and Theory of Grammar, University of Göttingen)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   80
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.866kg
ISBN:  

9780198833239

ISBN 10:   0198833237
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   14 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction and Outline 1: Negation and negative dependencies 2: Outline: The pluriform landscape of negative dependencies Part II. Negative Concord and Negative Quantifiers 3: Negative Concord is syntactic agreement 4: Types of Negative Concord systems 5: The flexibility of negative features 6: Diachronic developments in the domain of negation and NC 7: Negative Indefinites and split-scope readings 8: Neg-raising 9: Intermezzo. The landscape of polarity-sensitive elements: Convergence vs divergence Part III. Polarity-Sensitivity 10: Strong vs weak Negative Polarity Items 11: Other types of NPIs 12: Not a light negation 13: Universal Quantifier PPIs 14: The landscape of PPIs 15: Negation and clause types Part IV. Conclusions, Open Questions, and Avenues for Further Research 16: Conclusions and open questions 17: Avenues for further research References Index

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Hedde Zeijlstra is Professor of English Linguistics and Theory of Grammar at the University of Göttingen, and previously held positions at the universities of Amsterdam and Tübingen, and at MIT. He is an expert on the syntax-semantics interface, and has worked intensively on negation and negative dependencies, including negative concord, negative polarity sensitivity, and positive polarity sensitivity. He has also worked agreement phenomena, as well as tense, modality, and word order constraints. He is the co-author, with Olaf Koeneman, of Introducing Syntax (CUP, 2017).

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