Polarity-Sensitive Expressions : Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages / / ed. by Hideki Kishimoto, Osamu Sawada, Ikumi Imani

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; 2024
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIV, 458 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Language arts
• Soggetto non controllato: Cross-Linguistic Variation; Japanese; Polarity-Sensitive Expressions; Polarity
• Persona (resp. second.): ImaniIkumi <1956->; KishimotoHideki; SawadaOsamu
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Series preface -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Empirical and theoretical issues of polarity-sensitive expressions -- Part I: Syntax of negative polarity items -- Chapter 2 Negative polarity and clause structure in Japanese -- Chapter 3 Negation-sensitive elements outside the Neg-domain -- Part II: Syntax/semantics of polarity-sensitive expressions -- Chapter 4 Degree quantification, minimum quantity predicates, and polarity in Japanese -- Chapter 5 Polarity sensitivity of existential sentences with numerals in Japanese -- Chapter 6 Polarity sensitivity and equative markers in Japanese and German -- Part III: Positive polarity items -- Chapter 7 On the rescuing of positive polarity items in Japanese and English: A hybrid approach -- Chapter 8 Cross-linguistic variation in the scope of disjunction: Positive polarity, or anti-reconstruction? -- Part IV: Discourse/pragmatic properties of polarity-sensitive items -- Chapter 9 The forms and meanings of negative polar interrogatives in English and Japanese: Epistemic bias, information structure, prosody, and further issues -- Chapter 10 The polarity sensitivity of reactive intensifiers in Japanese and English -- Chapter 11 On propositional anaphora: 'Referential' propositions and propositional proforms -- Chapter 12 Two types of attenuation strategies for polarity-sensitive items: The semantics of degree adverbs amari and sonnani in Japanese -- Part V: Historical study of polarity-sensitive items -- Chapter 13 Scope ambiguity and the loss of NPI feature: Evidence from the history of Japanese scalar particle dani -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Polarity (positive, negative) is one of the most fundamental concepts in the system of language and there are many expressions that are sensitive to polarity. For example, any in English and wh-mo in Japanese appear in negative contexts, but not in positive contexts. While previous studies have shown that polarity-sensitive expressions are a general phenomenon in languages, it has also become clear that there are variations in polarity-sensitive expressions. This volume explores the variations in polarity-sensitive expressions through comparisons between Japanese and other languages, such as English, German, Spanish, and Old Japanese, and examines the environments and contexts in which polarity-sensitive expressions occur, as well as the types of (cross-linguistic) variation allowed. The value of the present volume lies in its inclusion of research papers inquiring into various types of polarity-sensitive expressions, such as negative-, positive-, and discourse-sensitive polarity items as well as their variations. The research indicates new directions for the study of polarity-sensitive expressions in the fields of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Polarity-Sensitive Expressions
• ISBN: 3-11-075512-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996565563203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno