Negation and Negative Dependencies

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-883323-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change. Negation is a universal property of natural language, but languages can significantly differ in how they express it: there is variation in the form and position of negative elements, the number of manifestations of negative morphemes, and in the restrictions on the use of Negative and Positive Polarity Items. In this volume, Hedde Zeijlstra explores the hypothesis that all known syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and lexical ways of encoding dependencies should be also be attested in the domain of negation, unless they are independently ruled out. He shows that the pluriform landscape of negative dependencies and markers of negation that emerges has broader implications for theories of syntax and semantics and their interface.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zeijlstra, Hedde

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I. Introduction and Outline

- 1: Negation and negative dependencies

- 2: Outline: The pluriform landscape of negative dependencies

- Part II. Negative Concord and Negative Quantifiers

- 3: Negative Concord is syntactic agreement

- 4: Types of Negative Concord systems

- 5: The flexibility of negative features

- 6: Diachronic developments in the domain of negation and NC

- 7: Negative Indefinites and split-scope readings

- 8: Neg-raising

- 9.: Intermezzo. The landscape of polarity-sensitive elements: Convergence vs divergence

- Part III. Polarity-Sensitivity

- 10: Strong vs weak Negative Polarity Items

- 11: Other types of NPIs

- 12: Not a light negation

- 13: Universal Quantifier PPIs

- 14: The landscape of PPIs

- 15: Negation and clause types

- Part IV. Conclusions, Open Questions, and Avenues for Further Research

- 16: Conclusions and open questions

- 17: Avenues for further research

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hedde Zeijlstra is Professor of English Linguistics and Theory of Grammar at the University of Göttingen, and previously held positions at the universities of Amsterdam and Tübingen, and at MIT. He is an expert on the syntax-semantics interface, and has worked intensively on negation and negative dependencies, including negative concord, negative polarity sensitivity, and positive polarity sensitivity. He has also worked agreement phenomena, as well as tense, modality, and word order constraints. He is the co-author, with Olaf Koeneman, of Introducing Syntax (CUP, 2017).