Negative Concord in English and Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negative Concord in English and Romance write by Susagna Tubau Muntañá. This book was released on 2008. Negative Concord in English and Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Negation and Negative Concord
Negation and Negative Concord - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negation and Negative Concord write by Viviane Déprez. This book was released on 2018-12-15. Negation and Negative Concord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.
The Loss of Negative Concord in Standard English
The Loss of Negative Concord in Standard English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Loss of Negative Concord in Standard English write by Amel Kallel. This book was released on 2011-01-18. The Loss of Negative Concord in Standard English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The loss of Negative Concord (NC) has long been attributed to external factors. This study readdresses this issue and provides evidence of the failure of certain external factors to account for the observed decline and ultimate disappearance of NC in Standard English. A detailed study of negation in Late Middle and Early Modern English reveals that the process of the decline of NC was a case of a natural change, preceded by a period of variation manifested in the obtained S-curves for all the contexts studied. Variation existed not only on the level of the speech community as a whole but also within individual speakers (contra Lightfoot, 1991). A close study of n-indefinites in negative contexts and their ultimate replacement with Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) in a number of grammatical environments shows that the decline of NC follows the same pattern across contexts in a form of parallel curvature, which indicates that the loss of NC is a natural process. However, this study reveals that the decline is not constant across time and thus the Constant Rate Hypothesis (Kroch, 1989) does not, in that respect, fully account for this change. Context behaviour suggests an alternative principle of linguistic change, the Context Constancy Principle. A Context Constancy Effect is obtained across all contexts indicating that the loss of NC is triggered by a change in a single underlying parameter setting. Accordingly, a theory-internal explanation is suggested. N-words underwent a lexical reanalysis whereby they acquired a new grammatical feature [+Neg] and were thus reinterpreted as negative quantifiers, rather than NPIs. This lexical reanalysis was triggered by the ambiguous status of n-words between [±Neg] and thus between single and double negative meanings. This change is treated as a case of parameter resetting as this lexical reanalysis affected a whole set of lexical items and can thus economically account for the different observed surface changes.
Negation and Negative Concord in Romance
Negation and Negative Concord in Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negation and Negative Concord in Romance write by Henriëtte Elisabeth Swart. This book was released on 2000. Negation and Negative Concord in Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Expression and Interpretation of Negation
Expression and Interpretation of Negation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Expression and Interpretation of Negation write by Henriëtte de Swart. This book was released on 2010-05-03. Expression and Interpretation of Negation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study in cross-linguistic semantics deploys the framework of bi-directional Optimality Theory to develop a typology of the relationship between syntax and semantics in negation markers and negation indefinites.
