Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Pierre Larrivée, Chungmin Lee (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 374
• Series: Language, Cognition, and Mind 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing onhow negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various experimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French, Catalan and Korean along with analyses using semantic and pragmatic methods, corpus linguistics, diachronic perspectives and longitudinal acquisitional studies as well as signed and gestural negation. Each contribution is situated with regards to major previous studies, thereby offering readers insights on the current state of the art in research on negation and negative polarity, highlighting how theory and data together contributes to the understanding of cognition and mind.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Dynamic Pragmatic View of Negation Processing....Pages 21-43
A Featural Approach to Sign Language Negation....Pages 45-74
Morphosyntactic Correlates of Gestures: A Gesture Associated with Negation in French and Its Organisation with Speech....Pages 75-94
A Child’s Multimodal Negations from 1 to 4: The Interplay Between Modalities....Pages 95-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
When Negatives Are Easier to Understand Than Affirmatives: The Case of Negative Sarcasm....Pages 127-143
Double Negation in Catalan and Spanish. Interaction Between Syntax and Prosody....Pages 145-176
The Markedness of Double Negation....Pages 177-198
Identifying the Role of Pragmatic Activation in Changes to the Expression of English Negation....Pages 199-227
Metalinguistically Negated Versus Descriptively Negated Adverbials: ERP and Other Evidence....Pages 229-255
An Experimental Study of Neg-Raising Inferences in Korean....Pages 257-277
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Licensing NPIs: Some Negative (and Positive) Results....Pages 281-305
Another Look at NPIs in Definite Descriptions: An Experimental Approach....Pages 307-327
Input Versus Output in the Acquisition of Negative Polarity: The Curious Case of Any ....Pages 329-345
The Significance of Formal Features in Language Change Theory and the Evolution of Minimizers....Pages 347-377

✦ Subjects

Psycholinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics