Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever' : new explorations in negative polarity sensitivity / / edited by Regine Eckardt [and three others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EckardtRegine |
Collana | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] |
Soggetto topico |
Context (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives Polarity (Linguistics) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-11-030523-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Beyond "any" and "ever" / Eckardt, Regine / Sailer, Manfred -- Mapping the West Germanic any's / Auwera, Johan van der / Van Alsenoy, Lauren -- Polarity items in Strawsonian contexts - A comparison / Hoeksema, Jack -- From æghwæðer to either: The distribution of a negative polarity item in historical perspective / Gast, Volker -- Evaluability - An alternative approach to polarity sensitivity / Brandtler, Johan -- How to get even with desires and imperatives / Crnič, Luka -- On NPI licensing in possibility conditionals / Hsieh, I-Ta Chris -- An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items / Gajewski, Jon -- The chance of being an NPI / Herburger, Elena / Mauck, Simon -- The modal need VP gap (non)anomaly / Levine, Robert -- Minimizers - Towards pragmatic licensing / Eckardt, Regine / Csipak, Eva -- Revisiting the licensing problem through understating NPIs - The Case of Japanese anmari '(not) very/much' / Matsui, Ai -- Really all that clear? / Onea, Edgar / Sailer, Manfred -- Polarity in context / Liu, Mingya / Eckardt, Regine / Radó, Janina -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462662103321 |
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Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever' : new explorations in negative polarity sensitivity / / edited by Regine Eckardt [and three others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EckardtRegine |
Collana | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] |
Soggetto topico |
Context (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives Polarity (Linguistics) |
ISBN | 3-11-030523-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Beyond "any" and "ever" / Eckardt, Regine / Sailer, Manfred -- Mapping the West Germanic any's / Auwera, Johan van der / Van Alsenoy, Lauren -- Polarity items in Strawsonian contexts - A comparison / Hoeksema, Jack -- From æghwæðer to either: The distribution of a negative polarity item in historical perspective / Gast, Volker -- Evaluability - An alternative approach to polarity sensitivity / Brandtler, Johan -- How to get even with desires and imperatives / Crnič, Luka -- On NPI licensing in possibility conditionals / Hsieh, I-Ta Chris -- An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items / Gajewski, Jon -- The chance of being an NPI / Herburger, Elena / Mauck, Simon -- The modal need VP gap (non)anomaly / Levine, Robert -- Minimizers - Towards pragmatic licensing / Eckardt, Regine / Csipak, Eva -- Revisiting the licensing problem through understating NPIs - The Case of Japanese anmari '(not) very/much' / Matsui, Ai -- Really all that clear? / Onea, Edgar / Sailer, Manfred -- Polarity in context / Liu, Mingya / Eckardt, Regine / Radó, Janina -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787647703321 |
Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2013] | ||
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Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever' : new explorations in negative polarity sensitivity / / edited by Regine Eckardt [and three others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EckardtRegine |
Collana | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] |
Soggetto topico |
Context (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives Polarity (Linguistics) |
ISBN | 3-11-030523-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Beyond "any" and "ever" / Eckardt, Regine / Sailer, Manfred -- Mapping the West Germanic any's / Auwera, Johan van der / Van Alsenoy, Lauren -- Polarity items in Strawsonian contexts - A comparison / Hoeksema, Jack -- From æghwæðer to either: The distribution of a negative polarity item in historical perspective / Gast, Volker -- Evaluability - An alternative approach to polarity sensitivity / Brandtler, Johan -- How to get even with desires and imperatives / Crnič, Luka -- On NPI licensing in possibility conditionals / Hsieh, I-Ta Chris -- An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items / Gajewski, Jon -- The chance of being an NPI / Herburger, Elena / Mauck, Simon -- The modal need VP gap (non)anomaly / Levine, Robert -- Minimizers - Towards pragmatic licensing / Eckardt, Regine / Csipak, Eva -- Revisiting the licensing problem through understating NPIs - The Case of Japanese anmari '(not) very/much' / Matsui, Ai -- Really all that clear? / Onea, Edgar / Sailer, Manfred -- Polarity in context / Liu, Mingya / Eckardt, Regine / Radó, Janina -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810544003321 |
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The evaluability hypothesis [[electronic resource] ] : the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of polarity item licensing / / Johan Brandtler |
Autore | Brandtler Johan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
Disciplina | 439.75 |
Collana | Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today |
Soggetto topico |
Swedish language - Grammar
Polarity (Linguistics) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-46931-6
9786613469311 90-272-7490-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Evaluability Hypothesis; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1.1. Aim of the present work; 1.2. Road map; Negation and polarity; 2.1. Defining polarity items; 2.1.1. Polarity items: Weak and strong; 2.1.2. Swedish polarity items; 2.2. Issues in the study of polarity items; 2.2.1. The licensing problem; 2.2.2. The Downward Entailment Hypothesis; 2.3. Perspective of current work; A syntactic categorization of Swedish; 3.1. A minimalist view on clause structure; 3.1.1. The C-domain: Split or non-split?
3.2. Classifying Swedish clause structure3.2.1. Swedish main clauses; 3.2.2. Swedish subordinate clauses; 3.3. The structural classification; The syntax of NPI-licensing in Swedish; 4.1. Configuration (i); 4.1.1. Declarative main clauses; 4.1.2. Embedded V2-clauses; 4.1.3. Wh-questions; 4.1.4. Summary; 4.2. Configuration (ii); 4.2.1. Att-clauses; 4.2.2. Exclamatives; 4.2.3. Relative clauses; 4.2.4. Summary; 4.3. Configuration (iii) and (iv); 4.3.1. Yes/no-questions; 4.3.2. Conditionals; 4.3.3. Imperatives; 4.3.4. Summary; 4.4. A new classification; The Evaluability Hypothesis 5.1. Veridicality, realis and irrealis5.1.1. Realis and irrealis; 5.1.2. Veridicality; 5.2. Evaluability; 5.3. Summary; Applying the Evaluability Hypothesis; 6.1. Type 1-clauses; 6.1.1. Declaratives; 6.1.2. Embedded V2-clauses; 6.1.3. Wh-questions; 6.1.4. Exclamatives; 6.1.5. Relative clauses; 6.1.6. Summary; 6.2. Type 2-clauses; 6.2.1. Yes/no-questions; 6.2.2. Conditionals; 6.2.3. Summary; 6.3. Evaluability and edge features; 6.3.1. The edge-feature in C; 6.3.2. A syntactic reflex; 6.3.3. Why the edge-feature in C?; 6.4. Summary; Evaluability and polarity I; 7.1. The general idea 7.1.1. Open to evaluation, closed to NPIs7.1.2. Closed to evaluation, open to NPIs; 7.2. Progovac (1994): A binding approach; 7.2.1. An operator in C; 7.2.2. Arguments against the operator in C; 7.2.3. Summary; 7.3. Proposal: No operator, no binding; 7.4. Summary; Evaluability and polarity II; 8.1. Veridicality revisited; 8.1.1. Giannakidou (1998): The Veridicality Hypothesis; 8.1.2. Veridicality and monotonicity; 8.2. Evaluability vs. veridicality; 8.2.1. Empirical issues; 8.2.2. Theoretical issues; 8.3. Evaluability and monotonicity; 8.4. Evaluability as polarity sensitivity Long-distance NPI-licensing9.1. Licensing by superordinate negation; 9.1.1. Factive predicates; 9.1.2. Volitional and non-assertive predicates; 9.1.3. Assertive and perception predicates; 9.1.4. Summary; 9.2. Predicate licensing; 9.2.1. Non-assertive predicates; 9.2.2. Factive predicates; 9.2.3. Summary; 9.3. Previous accounts; 9.3.1. Progovac (1994); 9.3.2. Giannakidou and Quer (1997); 9.3.3. Summary; 9.4. Summarizing discussion; Polarity items in wh-questions; 10.1. Empirical and theoretical issues; 10.2. Three kinds of wh-questions; 10.2.1. Argument wh-questions 10.2.2. Framing wh-questions |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458157103321 |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 | ||
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The evaluability hypothesis : the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of polarity item licensing / / Johan Brandtler |
Autore | Brandtler Johan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
Disciplina | 439.75 |
Collana | Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today |
Soggetto topico |
Swedish language - Grammar
Polarity (Linguistics) |
ISBN |
1-283-46931-6
9786613469311 90-272-7490-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Evaluability Hypothesis; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1.1. Aim of the present work; 1.2. Road map; Negation and polarity; 2.1. Defining polarity items; 2.1.1. Polarity items: Weak and strong; 2.1.2. Swedish polarity items; 2.2. Issues in the study of polarity items; 2.2.1. The licensing problem; 2.2.2. The Downward Entailment Hypothesis; 2.3. Perspective of current work; A syntactic categorization of Swedish; 3.1. A minimalist view on clause structure; 3.1.1. The C-domain: Split or non-split?
3.2. Classifying Swedish clause structure; 3.2.1. Swedish main clauses; 3.2.2. Swedish subordinate clauses; 3.3. The structural classification; The syntax of NPI-licensing in Swedish; 4.1. Configuration (i); 4.1.1. Declarative main clauses; 4.1.2. Embedded V2-clauses; 4.1.3. Wh-questions; 4.1.4. Summary; 4.2. Configuration (ii); 4.2.1. Att-clauses; 4.2.2. Exclamatives; 4.2.3. Relative clauses; 4.2.4. Summary; 4.3. Configuration (iii) and (iv); 4.3.1. Yes/no-questions; 4.3.2. Conditionals; 4.3.3. Imperatives; 4.3.4. Summary; 4.4. A new classification; The Evaluability Hypothesis 5.1. Veridicality, realis and irrealis; 5.1.1. Realis and irrealis; 5.1.2. Veridicality; 5.2. Evaluability; 5.3. Summary; Applying the Evaluability Hypothesis; 6.1. Type 1-clauses; 6.1.1. Declaratives; 6.1.2. Embedded V2-clauses; 6.1.3. Wh-questions; 6.1.4. Exclamatives; 6.1.5. Relative clauses; 6.1.6. Summary; 6.2. Type 2-clauses; 6.2.1. Yes/no-questions; 6.2.2. Conditionals; 6.2.3. Summary; 6.3. Evaluability and edge features; 6.3.1. The edge-feature in C; 6.3.2. A syntactic reflex; 6.3.3. Why the edge-feature in C?; 6.4. Summary; Evaluability and polarity I; 7.1. The general idea 7.1.1. Open to evaluation, closed to NPIs; 7.1.2. Closed to evaluation, open to NPIs; 7.2. Progovac (1994): A binding approach; 7.2.1. An operator in C; 7.2.2. Arguments against the operator in C; 7.2.3. Summary; 7.3. Proposal: No operator, no binding; 7.4. Summary; Evaluability and polarity II; 8.1. Veridicality revisited; 8.1.1. Giannakidou (1998): The Veridicality Hypothesis; 8.1.2. Veridicality and monotonicity; 8.2. Evaluability vs. veridicality; 8.2.1. Empirical issues; 8.2.2. Theoretical issues; 8.3. Evaluability and monotonicity; 8.4. Evaluability as polarity sensitivity Long-distance NPI-licensing; 9.1. Licensing by superordinate negation; 9.1.1. Factive predicates; 9.1.2. Volitional and non-assertive predicates; 9.1.3. Assertive and perception predicates; 9.1.4. Summary; 9.2. Predicate licensing; 9.2.1. Non-assertive predicates; 9.2.2. Factive predicates; 9.2.3. Summary; 9.3. Previous accounts; 9.3.1. Progovac (1994); 9.3.2. Giannakidou and Quer (1997); 9.3.3. Summary; 9.4. Summarizing discussion; Polarity items in wh-questions; 10.1. Empirical and theoretical issues; 10.2. Three kinds of wh-questions; 10.2.1. Argument wh-questions; 10.2.2. Framing wh-questions |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779094103321 |
Brandtler Johan
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2012 | ||
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The evaluability hypothesis : the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of polarity item licensing / / Johan Brandtler |
Autore | Brandtler Johan |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
Disciplina | 439.75 |
Collana | Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today |
Soggetto topico |
Swedish language - Grammar
Polarity (Linguistics) |
ISBN |
1-283-46931-6
9786613469311 90-272-7490-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Evaluability Hypothesis; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1.1. Aim of the present work; 1.2. Road map; Negation and polarity; 2.1. Defining polarity items; 2.1.1. Polarity items: Weak and strong; 2.1.2. Swedish polarity items; 2.2. Issues in the study of polarity items; 2.2.1. The licensing problem; 2.2.2. The Downward Entailment Hypothesis; 2.3. Perspective of current work; A syntactic categorization of Swedish; 3.1. A minimalist view on clause structure; 3.1.1. The C-domain: Split or non-split?
3.2. Classifying Swedish clause structure; 3.2.1. Swedish main clauses; 3.2.2. Swedish subordinate clauses; 3.3. The structural classification; The syntax of NPI-licensing in Swedish; 4.1. Configuration (i); 4.1.1. Declarative main clauses; 4.1.2. Embedded V2-clauses; 4.1.3. Wh-questions; 4.1.4. Summary; 4.2. Configuration (ii); 4.2.1. Att-clauses; 4.2.2. Exclamatives; 4.2.3. Relative clauses; 4.2.4. Summary; 4.3. Configuration (iii) and (iv); 4.3.1. Yes/no-questions; 4.3.2. Conditionals; 4.3.3. Imperatives; 4.3.4. Summary; 4.4. A new classification; The Evaluability Hypothesis 5.1. Veridicality, realis and irrealis; 5.1.1. Realis and irrealis; 5.1.2. Veridicality; 5.2. Evaluability; 5.3. Summary; Applying the Evaluability Hypothesis; 6.1. Type 1-clauses; 6.1.1. Declaratives; 6.1.2. Embedded V2-clauses; 6.1.3. Wh-questions; 6.1.4. Exclamatives; 6.1.5. Relative clauses; 6.1.6. Summary; 6.2. Type 2-clauses; 6.2.1. Yes/no-questions; 6.2.2. Conditionals; 6.2.3. Summary; 6.3. Evaluability and edge features; 6.3.1. The edge-feature in C; 6.3.2. A syntactic reflex; 6.3.3. Why the edge-feature in C?; 6.4. Summary; Evaluability and polarity I; 7.1. The general idea 7.1.1. Open to evaluation, closed to NPIs; 7.1.2. Closed to evaluation, open to NPIs; 7.2. Progovac (1994): A binding approach; 7.2.1. An operator in C; 7.2.2. Arguments against the operator in C; 7.2.3. Summary; 7.3. Proposal: No operator, no binding; 7.4. Summary; Evaluability and polarity II; 8.1. Veridicality revisited; 8.1.1. Giannakidou (1998): The Veridicality Hypothesis; 8.1.2. Veridicality and monotonicity; 8.2. Evaluability vs. veridicality; 8.2.1. Empirical issues; 8.2.2. Theoretical issues; 8.3. Evaluability and monotonicity; 8.4. Evaluability as polarity sensitivity Long-distance NPI-licensing; 9.1. Licensing by superordinate negation; 9.1.1. Factive predicates; 9.1.2. Volitional and non-assertive predicates; 9.1.3. Assertive and perception predicates; 9.1.4. Summary; 9.2. Predicate licensing; 9.2.1. Non-assertive predicates; 9.2.2. Factive predicates; 9.2.3. Summary; 9.3. Previous accounts; 9.3.1. Progovac (1994); 9.3.2. Giannakidou and Quer (1997); 9.3.3. Summary; 9.4. Summarizing discussion; Polarity items in wh-questions; 10.1. Empirical and theoretical issues; 10.2. Three kinds of wh-questions; 10.2.1. Argument wh-questions; 10.2.2. Framing wh-questions |
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The evolution of negation [[electronic resource] ] : beyond the Jespersen cycle / / edited by Pierre Larrivée, Richard P. Ingham |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LarrivéePierre
InghamRichard |
Collana | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives
Polarity (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Semantics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-11-023861-6 |
Classificazione | ET 740 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Is there a Jespersen cycle? / Larrivée, Pierre -- Negative words and related expressions: A new perspective on some familiar puzzles / Biberauer, Theresa / Roberts, Ian -- Negative words and negation in French / Labelle, Marie -- Secondary negation and information structure organisation in the history of English / Kemenade, Ans van -- Looking high and low for NegP in early English / Haeberli, Eric -- Ne-drop and indefinites in Anglo-Norman and Middle English / Ingham, Richard -- Looking at Middle English through the mirror of Anglo-Norman / Hoeksema, Jack -- Ne-absence in declarative and yes/no interrogative contexts: Some patterns of change / Martineau, France -- The early absence of the French negative marker ne / Rowlett, Paul -- Atoms of negation: An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord / Déprez, Viviane -- Viviane Déprez: ''Atoms of negation. An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord.'' Discussion / Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard -- Negative polarity and the quantifier cycle: Comparative diachronic perspectives from European languages / Willis, David -- Indefinite pronouns, synchrony and diachrony: Comments on Willis / Auwera, Johan van der / Alsenoy, Lauren Van -- Subject index -- Language index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465521303321 |
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The evolution of negation [[electronic resource] ] : beyond the Jespersen cycle / / edited by Pierre Larrivée, Richard P. Ingham |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LarrivéePierre
InghamRichard |
Collana | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives
Polarity (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Semantics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Historical Linguistics
Jespersen Cycle Language Change |
ISBN | 3-11-023861-6 |
Classificazione | ET 740 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Is there a Jespersen cycle? / Larrivée, Pierre -- Negative words and related expressions: A new perspective on some familiar puzzles / Biberauer, Theresa / Roberts, Ian -- Negative words and negation in French / Labelle, Marie -- Secondary negation and information structure organisation in the history of English / Kemenade, Ans van -- Looking high and low for NegP in early English / Haeberli, Eric -- Ne-drop and indefinites in Anglo-Norman and Middle English / Ingham, Richard -- Looking at Middle English through the mirror of Anglo-Norman / Hoeksema, Jack -- Ne-absence in declarative and yes/no interrogative contexts: Some patterns of change / Martineau, France -- The early absence of the French negative marker ne / Rowlett, Paul -- Atoms of negation: An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord / Déprez, Viviane -- Viviane Déprez: ''Atoms of negation. An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord.'' Discussion / Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard -- Negative polarity and the quantifier cycle: Comparative diachronic perspectives from European languages / Willis, David -- Indefinite pronouns, synchrony and diachrony: Comments on Willis / Auwera, Johan van der / Alsenoy, Lauren Van -- Subject index -- Language index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791968803321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 | ||
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The evolution of negation : beyond the Jespersen cycle / / edited by Pierre Larrivée, Richard P. Ingham |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LarrivéePierre
InghamRichard |
Collana | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives
Polarity (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Semantics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Historical Linguistics
Jespersen Cycle Language Change |
ISBN | 3-11-023861-6 |
Classificazione | ET 740 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Is there a Jespersen cycle? / Larrivée, Pierre -- Negative words and related expressions: A new perspective on some familiar puzzles / Biberauer, Theresa / Roberts, Ian -- Negative words and negation in French / Labelle, Marie -- Secondary negation and information structure organisation in the history of English / Kemenade, Ans van -- Looking high and low for NegP in early English / Haeberli, Eric -- Ne-drop and indefinites in Anglo-Norman and Middle English / Ingham, Richard -- Looking at Middle English through the mirror of Anglo-Norman / Hoeksema, Jack -- Ne-absence in declarative and yes/no interrogative contexts: Some patterns of change / Martineau, France -- The early absence of the French negative marker ne / Rowlett, Paul -- Atoms of negation: An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord / Déprez, Viviane -- Viviane Déprez: ''Atoms of negation. An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord.'' Discussion / Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard -- Negative polarity and the quantifier cycle: Comparative diachronic perspectives from European languages / Willis, David -- Indefinite pronouns, synchrony and diachrony: Comments on Willis / Auwera, Johan van der / Alsenoy, Lauren Van -- Subject index -- Language index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812330203321 |
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The grammar of polarity : pragmatics, sensitivity, and the logic of scales / / Michael Israel [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Israel Michael <1965-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Polarity (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Semantics |
ISBN |
1-107-21809-8
1-139-15241-6 1-283-34215-4 1-139-15979-8 9786613342157 1-139-16079-6 1-139-15874-0 1-139-15523-7 1-139-15698-5 0-511-97528-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; THE GRAMMAR OF POLARITY; CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS; Title; Copyright; The more that I philosophize The more and more I realize That little things which I despise, Like peanut shells and grains of sand, Are very hard, hard to understand.; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Trivium pursuits; 1.1 As above, so below; 1.2 A quirk of grammar or a trick of thought?; 1.3 The hypothesis: sensitivity as lexical pragmatics; 1.4 Putting pragmatics in its place; 1.5 Pragmatics in a usage-based grammar; 2 Ex nihilo: the grammar of polarity
2.1 The simplicity of negation2.2 The complexity of polarity; 2.3 The phenomenon of polarity sensitivity; 2.3.1 Polarity items; 2.3.2 Polarity contexts; 2.4 Basic mysteries: three problems of polarity sensitivity; 2.5 Varieties of polarity sensitivity; 2.5.1 Semi-polarity items, sometime polarity items; 2.5.2 Polarity sensitive morphology; 2.5.3 Inherently negative idioms; 2.5.4 Negative concord and the Jespersen cycle; 2.6 The Scalar Model of polarity sensitivity; 3 Licensing and the logic of scalar models; 3.1 What is a polarity context?; 3.2 Fauconnier's insight 3.3 The natural logic of scalar models3.3.1 Scalar reasoning and scalar implicature; 3.3.2 Cognitive foundations: conceptual scales; 3.3.3 Inferential mechanisms: scalar models; 3.4 Affectivity as a mode of scalar construal; 3.5 Syntactic constraints on scalar construals; 3.5.1 The precedence condition; 3.5.2 Intervention effects; 3.5.3 The paradox of double negation; 3.6 Polarity contexts are mental spaces; 4 Sensitivity as inherent scalar semantics; 4.1 Scalar operators; 4.2 Two scalar properties; 4.3 Four sorts of polarity items; 4.4 Sensitivity and the square of opposition 4.5 The conspiracy theory of polarity licensing4.6 The anomaly of inverted polarity items; 5 The elements of sensitivity; 5.1 The Informativity Hypothesis; 5.2 Quantitative semantics; 5.3 The pragmatics of informativity; 5.4 Assessing informativity; 5.4.1 Diagnostics of emphasis; 5.4.2 Diagnostics of attenuation; 5.5 Rhetorical coherence in polarity contexts; 5.6 Compositional sensitivities; 6 The scalar lexicon; 6.1 Paradigmatic predictions of the Scalar Model; 6.2 Modal polarity items; 6.3 Connective polarity items; 6.4 Aspectual polarity items; 6.5 The limits of diversity 7 The family of English indefinite polarity items7.1 The many splendors of any; 7.2 Indefinite family resemblances; 7.3 Emphatic construals of indefinite any; 7.4 The effects of phantom reference; 7.5 Some uses of some; 7.6 The limits of free choice; 7.7 Indefinite conclusions; 8 Polarity and the architecture of grammar; 8.1 High stakes Grammar; 8.2 Terms of the debate; 8.3 The syntactic approach; 8.3.1 Progovac: polarity and binding; 8.3.2 Linebarger: syntax and pragmatics; 8.4 Semantic approaches; 8.4.1 The Monotonicity Thesis; 8.4.2 A hierarchy of negative contexts 8.4.3 Veridicality and nonveridicality |
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Israel Michael <1965->
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 | ||
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