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Negation and negative dependencies /

"A universal property of natural language is that every language is able to express negation. However, languages may differ to quite a large extent as to how they express this negation, varying with respect to not only the form of negative elements, but also their position. They also differ in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zeijlstra, Hedzer Hugo, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 80.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives.
Négations (Linguistique)
Historical & Comparative.
Linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
Psycholinguistics.
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • General Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • I INTRODUCTION AND OUTLINE
  • 1 Introduction: Negation and negative dependencies
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 The syntax of sentential negation
  • 1.2.1 Sentential and constituent negation
  • 1.2.2 Ways of expressing sentential negation
  • 1.2.3 On the syntactic status of negative markers
  • 1.2.4 On the syntactic position of negative markers
  • 1.3 Polarity-sensitivity
  • 1.3.1 The licenser question
  • 1.3.2 The licensee question
  • 1.3.3 The licensing question
  • 1.4 The landscape of negative dependencies
  • 1.4.1 Negative Concord
  • 1.4.2 Positive Polarity-sensitivity
  • 1.5 Conclusions
  • 2 Outline: The pluriform landscape of negative dependencies
  • 2.1 The pluriform landscape of negative dependencies
  • 2.2 Outline
  • 2.3 Relation to earlier work
  • II NEGATIVE CONCORD AND NEGATIVE QUANTIFIERS
  • 3 Negative Concord is syntactic agreement
  • 3.1 Introduction: Negative Concord and neg-words
  • 3.2 The negative-quantifier approach
  • 3.2.1 Proposal
  • 3.2.2 Problems for the negative-quantifier approach
  • 3.2.3 Concluding remarks
  • 3.3 The Negative Polarity Item approach
  • 3.3.1 Proposal
  • 3.3.2 Challenges for the Negative Polarity Item approach
  • 3.3.3 Concluding remarks
  • 3.4 Negative Concord is syntactic agreement
  • 3.4.1 Proposal
  • 3.4.2 Application
  • 3.4.3 Challenges for the syntactic-agreement approach
  • 3.5 Conclusions
  • 4 Types of Negative Concord systems
  • 4.1 Variation on the domain of Negative Concord
  • 4.2 Strict vs Non-strict Negative Concord languages
  • 4.2.1 Strict vs Non-strict Negative Concord
  • 4.2.2 Obligatoriness and optionality of Negative Concord
  • 4.3 In search of a missing language: A closer look at Afrikaans
  • 4.4 Partial and/or invisible Negative Concord
  • 4.4.1 Negative Concord in French: Partial Negative Concord
  • 4.4.2 Negative Concord in English: Invisible Negative Concord
  • 4.4.3 Other invisible Negative Concord languages: Hindi and Punjabi
  • 4.5 Conclusions
  • 5 The flexibility of negative features
  • 5.1 The nature of negative features
  • 5.2 The Flexible Formal Feature Hypothesis
  • 5.2.1 A universal set of formal features?
  • 5.2.2 The algorithm
  • 5.2.3 Consequences
  • 5.3 Acquiring types of Negative Concord systems
  • 5.3.1 Double Negation: Dutch
  • 5.3.2 Non-strict Negative Concord: Italian
  • 5.3.3 Strict Negative Concord: Czech
  • 5.3.4 Negative Concord in Afrikaans Variety A
  • 5.3.5 Optional Negative Concord: Catalan and West Flemish
  • 5.3.6 Partial Negative Concord: French
  • 5.3.7 Invisible Negative Concord: English and Hindi/Punjabi
  • 5.3.8 Non-negative licensers of neg-words
  • 5.4 Consequences in the domain of language variation, acquisition, and change
  • 5.4.1 Types of Negative Concord systems: Language variation
  • 5.4.2 Types of Negative Concord systems: Language acquisition
  • 5.4.3 Consequences for language change