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Negation and contact : with special focus on Singapore English /

The study of negation across languages has left no stone unturned with respect to a range of frequently-researched areas, such as negative raising, negative concord, and the behavior of quantifiers under negative scope. Past research has chiefly focused on the category of negation from a cross-lingu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ziegeler, Debra (Editor ), Zhiming, Bao (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; volume 183.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Introduction / Debra Ziegeler and Zhiming Bao
  • Towards a diachronic reconstruction of Colloquial Singapore English / Peter Siemund and Lijun Li
  • Neg-raising and long-distance licensing of negative polarity items / Jack Hoeksema
  • A positive polarity focus particle under negation : not also and the impact of pragmatic activation / Pierre Larrivée
  • What is strict negative concord? Lessons from French based Creoles / Viviane Deprez
  • Englishes, English Creoles and their negative indefinites / Johan van der Auwera
  • Negative raising in Singapore English / Zhiming Bao and Luwen Cao
  • Quantification under negative scope in Singapore English / Debra Ziegeler
  • Subject index.