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Negative Contexts Ton van der Wouden

Negative Contexts By Ton van der Wouden

Negative Contexts by Ton van der Wouden

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Ton van der Wouden's account of negative contexts emphasizes pragmatic considerations, as well as semantic and syntactic ones.

Negative Contexts Summary

Negative Contexts: Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation by Ton van der Wouden

This research emphasizes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic considerations illustrating a wide array of linguistic approaches. Written from within the theoretical framework of Generalized Quantifiers, the three main areas considered are collocations, polarity items and multiple negations.

About Ton van der Wouden

Ton van der Wouden has previously held research positions in computational linguistics, computational lexicography and theoretical linguistics and has published in these fields. He has recently been a visiting scholar at Yale University and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Groningen.

Table of Contents

Preface Part I Collocations 1 Introduction to Part I 2 First orientation 3 Lexical items 4 The nature of collocational restrictions 5 Combinability 6 The idiosyncrasy of collocations 7 Summary and concluding remarks Part II Polarity items 1 Introduction to Part II 3 What is a negative context? 4 Degrees of negativity 5 Negations and polarity items: towards a classification 6 Negative contexts and downward monotonicity 7 Some remarks on scope 8 Conclusion: polarity items Part III Multiple negations 1 Introduction to Part III 2 Negative concord 3 Weakening of negation: litotes 4 Denial 5 Emphatic negation 6 Conclusion

Additional information

NPB9780415138499
9780415138499
0415138493
Negative Contexts: Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation by Ton van der Wouden
Ton van der Wouden
Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1997-01-02
314
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