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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821913803321

Autore

Wouden Ton van der <1958, >

Titolo

Negative contexts : collocation, polarity and multiple negation / / Ton van der Wouden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-77332-3

1-134-77333-1

1-280-10995-5

0-585-44809-4

0-203-43763-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Collocation (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives

Context (Linguistics)

Polarity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction to Part I; First orientation; Lexical items; The nature of collocational restrictions; Combinability; The idiosyncrasy of collocations; Summary and concluding remarks; Introduction to Part II; The characterization and classification of polarity items; What is a negative context?; Degrees of negativity; Negations and polarity items: towards a classification; Negative contexts and downward monotonicity; Some remarks on scope; Conclusion: polarity items; Introduction to Part III; Negative concord; Weakening of negation: litotes; Denial

Emphatic negationConclusion; Bibliography; Index of lexical items; Index of names and subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Ton van der Wouden's account of negative contexts emphasizes pragmatic considerations, as well as semantic and syntactic ones.