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The grammatical realization of polarity contrast : theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches /

"The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like Germ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dimroth, Christine (Editor ), Sudhoff, Stefan, 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Colección:Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The grammatical realization of polarity contrast: introductory remarks / Christine Dimroth and Stefan Sudhoff
  • From polarity focus to salient polarity: from things to processes / Dejan Matic and Irina Nikolaeva
  • Verum focus, sentence mood, and contrast / Horst Lohnstein
  • Complementizers and negative polarity in German hypothetical comparatives / Julia Bacskai-Atkari
  • Veridicality and sets of alternative worlds: on embedded interrogatives and the complementizers that and if / Peter Öhl
  • Biased declarative questions in Swedish and German: negation meets modal particles (.äl and doch wohl) / Heiko Seeliger
  • Types of polar interrogatives in Hungarian and their interaction with inside and outside negation / Beáta Gyuris
  • Kinds of verum distinguished by aspect choice in Russian / Olav Mueller-Reichau
  • Polarity focus and non-canonical syntax in Italian, French and Spanish: clitic left dislocation and sì che/ sí que-constructions / Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob
  • In search for polarity contrast marking in Italian: a contribution from echo replies / Cecilia Andorno and Claudia Crocco.