"This book addresses three fundamental questions in the study of negation: What are the main ways of expressing sentential negation? What are the distributional properties of lexically-encoded negative elements? And, what implications do the answers to these two questions have f…
Sentential negation and negative concord
Sentential negation and negative concord
Negation has always been and still is a central topic in typological studies and theoretical research. Its centrality shows itself in the fact that it is not restricted to a given linguistic field but compasses the whole domain of linguistic studies. Very often, works on negatio…
Typological studies in negation
by Berg, René van den, Kahrel, Peter
fromTypological studies in language
Typological studies in negation
by Berg, René van den, Kahrel, Peter
fromTypological studies in language
"Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negation that makes us human, imbuing us with the capacity to deny, to contradict, to misrepresent, to lie, and to convey irony. The appa…
