Negation and Polarity Syntactic and Semantic Perspectives [Hardcover]

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 Polaritycovers all of the main approaches to this subject--syntactic, pragmatic, semantic, and cognitive--in a variety of language contexts.

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

Laurence R. Hornis 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.