Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives
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Beschreibung
This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various experimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French, Catalan and Korean along with analyses using semantic and pragmatic methods, corpus linguistics, diachronic perspectives, and longitudinal acquisitional studies as well as signed and gestural negation. Each contribution is situated with regards to major previous studies, thereby offering readers insights on the current state of the art in research on negation and negative polarity, highlighting how theoryand data together contributes to the understanding of cognition and mind.
This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various experimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French, Catalan and Korean along with analyses using semantic and pragmatic methods, corpus linguistics, diachronic perspectives and longitudinal acquisitional studies as well as signed and gestural negation. Each contribution is situated with regards to major previous studies, thereby offering readers insights on the current state of the art in research on negation and negative polarity, highlighting how theory and data together contributes to the understanding of cognition and mind.
Offers cutting-edge experimental and cognitive approaches to linguistic research Leading specialists of research in negation and negative polarity present an up to date view of current research Includes a full survey of experimental methods, novel data, and analytic methods Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Pierre Larrivée
Themen in »Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives«
Acquisition of negative polarity Expermental approach to negative polarity Neg-Raising in Korean Negative sarcasm Pragmatics and linguistic processing Syntax and prosody of double negation acquisition of negation cognitive and linguistic processes cognitive linguistic research cognitive linguistics research cognitively-relevant research methods in linguistics cross-linguistic perspectives on negation experimental methods in linguistics gestures and negation in French morphosyntactic features of negation