Ton van der Wouden

Negative Contexts (eBook, ePUB)

Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation

• Format: ePub

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: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134773329
• Artikelnr.: 47889051

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