The expression of negation /
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 b...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2010.
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Colección: | Expression of cognitive categories ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Typology of negation
- The Acquisition of Negation
- On the diachrony of negation
- Multiple negation in English and other languages
- Quantifier-negation interaction in English: A corpus linguistic study of all ... not constructions
- Negative and positive polarity items: An investigation of the interplay of lexical meaning and global conditions on expression
- Negation as a metaphor-inducing operator; Negation in Classical Japanese
- Negation and polarity in the new millennium: A bibliography
- Backmatter.