The Oxford Handbook of Negation

by Déprez, Viviane; Espinal, M.teresa

• ISBN13: 9780198830528
• ISBN10: 0198830521
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-05-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Viviane D?prez is Full Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University and Senior Researcher at the CNRS Institute for Cognitive Science Marc Jeannerod in Lyon. Her major fields of research are in comparative and experimental Romance linguistics, French and Creole linguistics, second language acquisition of French, and cognitive sciences. She is the co-editor, with Fabiola Henri, of Negation and Negative Concord: The View from Creoles (Benjamins, 2018) and, with Richard Larson and Hiroko Yamakido, of The Evolution of Language: The Biolinguistics Perspective (CUP, 2010).

M.Teresa Espinal is Professor of Linguistics at the Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona, where she is a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics. Her main research interests are the theory of language, the syntax-semantics interface, and their relationship with a general theory of cognition. Her work has been published in multiple journals including Language, Journal of Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Pragmatics, The Linguistic Review, Linguistics, Lingua, International Journal of Lexicography, Probus, Frontiers in Psychology, Glossa, Annual Review of Linguistics, and Studia Linguistica. She is the editor of Sem?ntica (Akal, 2014).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Negation in language and beyond, Viviane D?prez and M.Teresa Espinal
Part I: Fundamentals
2. Negation and opposition: Contradiction and contrariety in logic and language, Laurence R. Horn
3. Negative predicates: Incorporated negation, Jacques Moeschler
4. Denial, David Ripley
5. Types of negation, Karen De Clercq
6. Affixal negation, Shrikant Joshi
7. The typology of negation, Johan van der Auwera and Olga Krasnoukhova
Part II: Questions in the syntax of negation
8. The morpho-syntactic nature of the negative marker, Chiara Gianollo
9. The possible positioning of negation, Cecilia Poletto
10. Negation and constituent ordering: Case studies, Elizabeth Pearce
11. The expression of negation in sign languages, Josep Quer
Part III: Negation at the syntax-semantics interface
12. Neg-raising, Laurence R. Horn
13. Intervention effects with negation, Clemens Mayr
14. Form and function of negative, tag, and rhetorical questions, Maribel Romero
15. Expletive negation, Denis Delfitto
16. Calculating the scope of negation: Interaction of negation with quantifiers, Nicholas Fleisher
Part IV: Semantics and pragmatics of negation
17. Modals and negation, Naomi Francis and Sabine Iatridou
18. Negation in event semantics, Barry Schein
19. Negation and alternatives: Interaction with focus constituents, Anamaria Fălăuş
20. Metalinguistic negation, Ana Maria Martins
21. Negation and presupposition, David Beaver and Kristin Denlinger
Part V: Negative dependencies
22. Negative Polarity Items, Lucia M. Tovena
23. Minimizers and maximizers as different types of polarity items, Susagna Tubau
24. Negative quantifiers, Hedde Zeiljstra
25. Negative fragment answers, Andrew Weir
26. Negative concord and the nature of negative concord items, Anastasia Giannakidou
27. Double negation readings, Henri?tte de Swart
Part VI: Synchronic and diachronic variation in negation
28. Quantitative studies of the use of negative (dependent) expressions, Phillip Wallage
29. Negation in non-standard varieties, Christina Tortora and Frances Blanchette
30. The negative cycle and beyond, Anne Breitbarth
31. Evolution of negative dependencies, Chiara Gianollo
32. The role of pragmatics in negation change, Pierre Larriv?e
Part VII: Emergence and acquisition of negation
33. Evolutionary precursors of negation in non-human reasoning, Manuel Bohn, Josep Call, and Christoph J. V?lter
34. Cognitive precursors of negation in pre-verbal infants, Jean-R?my Hochmann
35. Negation and first language acquisition, Rosalind Thornton
36. Negation in L2 acquisition and beyond, Liliana S?nchez and Jennifer Austin
Part VIII: Experimental investigations of negation
37. Understanding negation: Issues in the processing of negation, Barbara Kaup and Carolin Dudschig
38. Negative polarity illusions, Hanna Muller and Colin Phillips
39. Negation, prosody, and gesture, Pilar Prieto and M.Teresa Espinal
40. Negation and the brain: Experiments in health and in focal brain disease, and their theoretical implications, Yosef Grodzinsky, Virginia Jaichenco, Isabelle Deschamps, Mar?a Elina S?nchez, Mart?n Fuchs, Peter Pieperhoff, Yonatan Loewenstein, and Katrin Amunts
41. Individual differences in processing of negative operators: Implications for bilinguals, Veena D. Dwivedi
42. The neurology of negation: fMRI, ERP, and aphasia, Ken Ramsh?j Christensen
43. The neurobiology of lexical and sentential negation, Liuba Papeo and Manuel de Vega
References
Index