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Author:   Laurence R. Horn (Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale University) ,  Yasuhiko Kato (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Sophia University, Tokyo)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.554kg
ISBN:  

9780198238744

ISBN 10:   0198238746
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   03 August 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

c IntroductionLaurence R. Horn and Yasuhiko Kato: Negation and Polarity at the Millennium 1: Liliane Haegeman: Negative Preposing, Negative Inversion, and the Split CP 2: Yasuhiko Kato: Interpretive Asymmetries of Negation 3: Ljiljana Progovac: Coordination, C-Command, and 'Logophoric' N-Words 4: Jack Hoeksema: Negative Polarity Items Triggering, Scope, and C-Command 5: Laurence R. Horn: Pick a Theory (any Theory) Indiscriminatives and the Free-Choice Indefinite 6: Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini: The Force of Negation in Wh Exclamatives and Interrogatives 7: William A. Ladusaw: Thetic and Categorical, Stage and Individual, Weak and Strong 8: Masa-aki Yamanashi: Negative Inference, Space Construal, and Grammaticalization

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this volume succeeds in generating a lively internal debate Steve Nicolle, SIL International Book Reviews

Contains new developments in the study of the syntactic and semantic aspects of negation in natural language. Years Work in English Studies

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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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