Negative contexts : collocation, polarity and multiple negation

✍ Scribed by Ton van der Wouden

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Series: Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ton van der Wouden's account of negative contexts emphasizes pragmatic considerations, as well as semantic and syntactic ones.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction to Part I; First orientation; Lexical items; The nature of collocational restrictions; Combinability; The idiosyncrasy of collocations; Summary and concluding remarks; Introduction to Part II; The characterization and classification of polarity items; What is a negative context?; Degrees of negativity; Negations and polarity items: towards a classification; Negative contexts and downward monotonicity; Some remarks on scope; Conclusion: polarity items; Introduction to Part III; Negative concord; Weakening of negation: litotes; Denial
Abstract:

Written from within the well-defined theoretical frameword of Generalized Quantifiers, the three main areas considered in this study are: collocations, polarity items, and multiple negations. It takes into account not only semantic and syntactic considerations, but also pragmatic ones. Read more...