Ton van der Wouden

Negative Contexts

Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 164mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780415138499
• ISBN-10: 0415138493
• Artikelnr.: 22314345

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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