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

• Autore: Wouden Ton van der <1958, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetto topico: Collocation (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives; Context (Linguistics); Polarity
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Negative contexts
• ISBN: 1-134-77332-3; 1-134-77333-1; 1-280-10995-5; 0-585-44809-4; 0-203-43763-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821913803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics.