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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horn, Laurence R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.
Colección:Expression of cognitive categories ; 4.
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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.