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Product Description: This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the written language. It investigates both the development of standard negation, or Jespersen's Cycle, and the changing interaction between the expression of negation and indefinites in its scope, giving rise to negative concord along the way...read more
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9780199687282 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 25, 2014, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the written language.
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9789027259257 | John Benjamins Pub Co, October 24, 2014, cover price $143.00
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9780262027311 | Mit Pr, May 16, 2014, cover price $70.00
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9780262525862 | Mit Pr, May 16, 2014, cover price $37.00
Product Description: This book presents a novel semantic account of weak, or selective, islands. Weak islands are configurations that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Examples of island violations with acceptable counterexamples include '#How much wine haven't you drunk?' (but 'Which girl haven't you introduced to Mary?'), '#How does John regret that he danced at the party?' (but 'Who does John regret that he invited to the party?') or '#How much wine do you know whether you will produce?' (but 'Which glass of wine do you know whether you'll poison?')...read more
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9780199639380 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 27, 2014, cover price $110.00
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9780199639397 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 27, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This book presents a novel semantic account of weak, or selective, islands.
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9780199602537 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 15, 2013, cover price $135.00
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9783110303728 | Mouton De Gruyter, June 18, 2013, cover price $168.00
Product Description: Why do languages change? The proposal that the grammar of negation evolves according to cycles is looked at from the behaviour of negative items and constructions, mainly through the history of English and French. The studies show that the variation within a language at any given point of history is too great for cycles to be invoked as an autonomous mechanism of grammar change...read more
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9783110238600 | Mouton De Gruyter, November 30, 2011, cover price $182.00 | About this edition: Why do languages change?
Product Description: Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of negative sentences in a variety of languages and offers state-of-the-art surveys of the acquisition of negation by children, its processing by adults, its historical development, and its interaction with other operators and predicates within natural language sentences...read more
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9783110219296 | Mouton De Gruyter, May 18, 2010, cover price $210.00 | About this edition: Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies.
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9783110253160 | Mouton De Gruyter, May 16, 2011, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies.
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9783110219302 | 1 edition (De Gruyter, May 18, 2010), cover price $140.00
Product Description: Many languages include constructions which are sensitive to the expression of polarity: that is, negative polarity items, which cannot occur in affirmative clauses, and positive polarity items, which cannot occur in negatives. The phenomenon of polarity sensitivity has been an important source of evidence for theories about the mental architecture of grammar over the last fifty years, and to many the oddly dysfunctional sensitivities of polarity items have seemed to support a view of grammar as an encapsulated mental module fundamentally unrelated to other aspects of human cognition or communicative behavior...read more
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9780521792400 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 30, 2011, cover price $124.99 | About this edition: Many languages include constructions which are sensitive to the expression of polarity: that is, negative polarity items, which cannot occur in affirmative clauses, and positive polarity items, which cannot occur in negatives.
Product Description: In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages...read more
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9780199567263 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 16, 2010), cover price $135.00 | About this edition: In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages.
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9780199567270 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 16, 2010), cover price $58.00 | About this edition: In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages.
Product Description: With this book, the author explores the syntax of negative sentences, tracing fine-grained contours of the linguistic variation and offering a detailed cartographic representation of the distribution of negative markers. The goal is to show the existing tension in Language between the variable surface realization of negation and its stable logical representation...read more
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9781443825061 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, November 1, 2010, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: With this book, the author explores the syntax of negative sentences, tracing fine-grained contours of the linguistic variation and offering a detailed cartographic representation of the distribution of negative markers.
Product Description: This study in cross-linguistic semantics explores the territory where logic, natural language and typology meet. While we can all understand the semantics of negation in its role of altering truth values, this ambitious book aims to take the reader much further...read more
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9789048131617 | Springer Verlag, February 3, 2010, cover price $209.00 | About this edition: This study in cross-linguistic semantics explores the territory where logic, natural language and typology meet.
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