Expression and Interpretation of Negation An OT Typology /

This study in cross-linguistic semantics explores the territory where logic, natural language and typology meet. While we can all understand the semantics of negation in its role of altering truth values, this ambitious book aims to take the reader much further. A unified analysis of the linguistic...

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Main Author: Swart, Henrit͡te. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Series:Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 77
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505 0 # |a From the contents Preface -- 1. Negation in a cross-linguistic perspective -- 2. Expressive and interpretive optimization -- 3. Markedness of negation -- 4. A typology of negative indefinites -- 5. Sentential negation and negative indefinites -- 6. More on double negation -- 7. Conclusion and perspectives for further research -- References -- Index Subjects/Names/Languages. 
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