Negation and polarity : experimental perspectives /: experimental perspectives. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pierre Larrivée, Chungmin Lee, editors.
• Editors: Larrivée, Pierre; Lee, Chungmin
• Contents: Introduction by Chungmin Lee -- Section I. Negation -- 1. Dynamic Pragmatic View of Negation Processing by Ye Tian & Richard Breheny -- 2. A Featural Approach to Sign Language Negation by Roland Pfau -- 3. Morphosyntactic Correlates of Gestures: A Gesture Associated with Negation in French and its Organisation with Speech by Simon Harrison & Pierre Larrivée -- 4. A Child?s Multimodal Negations from 1 to 4: The Interplay between Modalities by Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel, Aliyah Morgenstern & Dominique Boutet -- Section II -- 5. When Negatives are easier to Understand than Affirmatives: The case of Negative Sarcasm by Rachel Giora -- 6. Double Negation in Catalan and Spanish. Interaction between Syntax and Prosody by M. Teresa Espinal, Susagna Tubau, Joan Borràs-Comes & Pilar Prieto -- 7. The Markedness of Double Negation by Pierre Larrivée -- 8. Identifying the role of Pragmatic Activation in Changes to the Expression of English Negation by Phillip Wallage -- 9. Metalinguistically Negated vs. Descriptively Negated Adverbials: ERP Evidence by Chungmin Lee -- 10. An Experimental Study of Neg-Raising in Korean by Sungbom Lee & Seung Jin Hong -- Section III -- 11. Licensing NPIs: Some Negative (and Positive) Results by Laurence R. Horn -- 12. Another look at NPIs in Definite Descriptions. An Experimental Approach by Jon Gajewski -- 13. Input vs. Output in the Acquisition of Negative Polarity: The Curious case of any by Lyn Tieu -- 14. The Significance of Formal Features in Language Change Theory and the Evolution of Minimizers by Montserrat Batllori.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 377 pages)
• Subjects: 415; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Negatives; Polarity (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Semantics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Negatives; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Polarity (Linguistics); Semantics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319174648; 3319174649
• Related ISBNs: 9783319174631; 3319174630
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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