In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.
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The Oxford Handbook of Negation brings together a most competent team of authors, with a list of contributors that reads like a who is who in negation research. The articles have been rigorously peer reviewed, as acknowledged in footnotes and comments. Most contributions provide a comprehensive and balanced overview of their respective topic, without pushing a certain view or overemphasizing the author's own research. * Peter Backhaus, Linguist *
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| The Contributors |
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1 Introduction: Negation in language and beyond |
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2 Negation and opposition: Contradiction and contrariety in logic and language |
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3 Negative predicates: Incorporated negation |
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PART II QUESTIONS IN THE SYNTAX OF NEGATION |
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7 The typology of negation |
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8 The morpho-syntactic nature of the negative marker |
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9 The possible positioning of negation |
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10 Negation and constituent ordering: Case studies |
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11 The expression of negation in sign languages |
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PART III NEGATION AT THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE |
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13 Intervention effects with negation |
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14 Form and function of negative, tag, and rhetorical questions |
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235 | (20) |
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16 Calculating the scope of negation: Interaction of negation with quantifiers |
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269 | (16) |
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PART IV SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF NEGATION |
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285 | (16) |
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18 Negation in event semantics |
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19 Negation and alternatives: Interaction with focus constituents |
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333 | (16) |
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20 Metalinguistic negation |
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349 | (20) |
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21 Negation and presupposition |
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369 | (22) |
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PART V NEGATIVE DEPENDENCIES |
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22 Negative polarity items |
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23 Minimizers and maximizers as different types of polarity items |
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407 | (19) |
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25 Negative fragment answers |
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26 Negative concord and the nature of negative concord items |
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27 Double negation readings |
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PART VI SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC VARIATION IN NEGATION |
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28 Quantitative studies of the use of negative (dependent) expressions |
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29 Negation in non-standard varieties |
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30 The negative cycle and beyond |
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31 Evolution of negative dependencies |
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32 The role of pragmatics in negation change |
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PART VII EMERGENCE AND ACQUISITION OF NEGATION |
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33 Evolutionary precursors of negation in non-human reasoning |
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34 Cognitive precursors of negation in preverbal infants |
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35 Negation and first language acquisition |
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36 Negation in L2 acquisition and beyond |
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PART VIII EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF NEGATION |
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37 Understanding negation: Issues in the processing of negation |
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38 Negative polarity illusions |
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39 Negation, prosody, and gesture |
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40 Negation and the brain: Experiments in health and in focal brain disease, and their theoretical implications |
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694 | (19) |
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41 Individual differences in processing of negative operators: Implications for bilinguals |
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42 The neurology of negation: fMRI, ERP, and aphasia |
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43 The neurobiology of lexical and sentential negation |
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Viviane Déprez is 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 Autònoma 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 Semántica (Akal, 2014).
