The Oxford Handbook of Negation

by Viviane Déprez

Author	: Viviane Déprez
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages	: 889
Release	: 2020-03-31
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 0198830521

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In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Negation

by Viviane Déprez

Author	: Viviane Déprez
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 832
Release	: 2020-03-25
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 0192566261

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In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax

by Guglielmo Cinque

Author	: Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 990
Release	: 2008-10-16
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 0195136519

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Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved." "This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--Jacket.

The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis

by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

Author	: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Publisher	: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages	: 1147
Release	: 2019
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 0198712391

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This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis, a phenomena whereby expressions in natural language appear to be incomplete but are still understood. It explores fundamental questions about the workings of grammar and provides detailed case studies of inter- and intralinguistic variation.

The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics

by Chris Cummins

Author	: Chris Cummins
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 1125
Release	: 2019-03-19
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 0192509551

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This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters in this volume offer an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning 31 different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. The volume's forward-looking approach also seeks to actively identify questions and methods that could be fruitfully combined in future experimental research. Written in a clear and accessible style, this handbook will appeal to students and scholars from advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields, including semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood

by Jan Nuyts

Author	: Jan Nuyts
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 762
Release	: 2016-09-08
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 0191646342

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This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.

Negative Indefinites

by Doris Penka

Author	: Doris Penka
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 282
Release	: 2011
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 0199567263

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In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation.In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express a single negation), split readings (in which negative and indefinite parts take scope independently of each other), and the limited distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian languages - Doris Penka considers data from a wide range of languages and reviews the mostrecent literature on the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites. Her book will interest all linguists working on negation in particular and the syntax-semantics interface more generally.

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean

by David Willis

Author	: David Willis
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages	: 556
Release	: 2013-07-25
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 0199602530

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This is the first of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It examines the development of sentential negation and negative indefinites and quantifiers in languages and language groups such as Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic.

Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek

by Katerina Chatzopoulou

Author	: Katerina Chatzopoulou
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages	: 283
Release	: 2019
Genre	: Foreign Language Study
ISBN	: 0198712405

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This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the history of Greek, based on extensive data from major stages of the language. It also provides a new semantic interpretation of Jespersen's cycle that explains the Greek developments and those in other languages.