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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2010.
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| Series: | Expression of cognitive categories ;
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 by adults, its historical development, and its interaction with other operators and predicates within natural language sentences. Topics covered include the nature of negative polarity, the phenomenon of pleonastic or illogical negation, and the role of morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (343 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110219302 3110219301 9783110219296 3110219298 128267305X 9781282673052 9786612673054 6612673052 |