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A Natural History of Negation

Author : Laurence R. Horn
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis A Natural History of Negation by : Laurence R. Horn

Download or read book A Natural History of Negation written by Laurence R. Horn and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion. This book was released on 2001 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique synthesis of past and current work on the structure, meaning, and use of negation and negative expressions, a topic that has engaged thinkers from Aristotle and the Buddha to Freud and Chomsky. Horn's masterful study melds a review of scholarship in philosophy, psychology, and linguistics with original research, providing a full picture of negation in natural language and thought; this new edition adds a comprehensive preface and bibliography, surveying research since the book's original publication.

The Expression of Negation

Author : Laurence R. Horn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110219298
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis The Expression of Negation by : Laurence R. Horn

Download or read book The Expression of Negation written by Laurence R. Horn and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of negative sentences in a variety of languages and offers state-of-the-art surveys of the acquisition of negation by children, its processing by adults, its historical development, and its interaction with other operators and predicates within natural language sentences. Topics covered include the nature of negative polarity, the phenomenon of pleonastic or illogical negation, and the role of morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic.

History of German Negation

Author : Agnes Jäger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291551
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis History of German Negation by : Agnes Jäger

Download or read book History of German Negation written by Agnes Jäger and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German. It addresses both the development of the negation particles as well as the diachrony of indefinites in the scope of negation and the phenomenon of Negative Concord. Being based on a corpus study of several Old and Middle High German texts, it comprises a wealth of historical examples with additional comparison to Modern Standard German and dialects, as well as crosslinguistic data from a variety of languages. The findings are placed in the context of typological research and are analysed in terms of current syntactic and semantic theory of negation arguing for an unchanged underlying syntactic structure, with changes in the lexical filling of NegP and in the lexical features of indefinites resulting in crucial changes in the syntactic patterns of negation. This book is of interest to scholars of German linguistics, historical linguists, as well as anyone working in the field of negation.

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

Author : David Willis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667978
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by : David Willis

Download or read book The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean written by David Willis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The first volume presents linked case studies of particular languages and language groups, including French, Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic. Each outlines and analyses the development of sentential negation and of negative indefinites and quantifiers, including negative concord and, where appropriate, language-specific topics such as the negation of infinitives, negative imperatives, and constituent negation. The second volume (to be pubished in 2014) will offer comparative analyses of changes in negation systems of European and north African languages and set out an integrated framework for understanding them. The aim of both is a universal understanding of the syntax of negation and how it changes. Their authors develop formal models in the light of data drawn from historical linguistics, especially on processes of grammaticalization, and consider related effects on language acquisition and language contact. At the same time the books seek to advance models of historical syntax more generally and to show the value of uniting perspectives from different theoretical frameworks.

What is Negation?

Author : Dov M. Gabbay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792355694
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (556 download)

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Book Synopsis What is Negation? by : Dov M. Gabbay

Download or read book What is Negation? written by Dov M. Gabbay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The properties of negation, in combination with those of other logical operations and structural features of the deductibility relation, serve as gateways among logical systems. Negation therefore plays an important role in selecting logical systems for particular applications. This volume provides a thorough treatment of this concept, based on contributions written by authors from various branches of logic. The resulting 14 research papers address a variety of topics including negation in relevant logics; a defense of dialetheic theory of negation; stable negation in logic programming; antirealism and falsity; and negation, denial, and language change in philosophical logic. Suited to scholars and graduate students in the fields of philosophy, logic mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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

Author : Anne Breitbarth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019106520X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by : Anne Breitbarth

Download or read book The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean written by Anne Breitbarth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The aim of both volumes is to set out an integrated framework for understanding the syntax of negation and how it changes. While the first volume (OUP, 2013) presented linked case studies of particular languages and language groups, this second volume constructs a holistic approach to explaining the patterns of historical change found in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean over the last millennium. It identifies typical developments found repeatedly in the histories of different languages and explores their origins, as well as investigating the factors that determine whether change proceeds rapidly, slowly, or not at all. Language-internal factors such as the interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and the biases inherent in child language acquisition, are investigated alongside language-external factors such as imposition, convergence, and borrowing. The book proposes an explicit formal account of language-internal and contact-induced change for both the expression of sentential negation ('not') and negative indefinites ('anyone', 'nothing'). It sheds light on the major ways in which negative systems develop, on the nature of syntactic change, and indeed on linguistic change more generally, demonstrating the insights that large-scale comparison of linguistic histories can offer.

The History of Low German Negation

Author : Anne Breitbarth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199687285
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Low German Negation by : Anne Breitbarth

Download or read book The History of Low German Negation written by Anne Breitbarth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon to Middle Low German. It is the first substantial diachronic analysis of these changes and looks at both the development of standard negation and the changing interaction between the expression of negation and indefinites in its scope.

An Essay on Negation

Author : Paolo Virno
Publisher : Italian List
ISBN 13 : 9780857424389
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (243 download)

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Book Synopsis An Essay on Negation by : Paolo Virno

Download or read book An Essay on Negation written by Paolo Virno and published by Italian List. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousness is a powerful apparatus, which orchestrates language, signification, and the world at large. What particle might this be? The word not. In Essay on Negation, Paolo Virno argues that the importance of the not is perhaps comparable only to that of money--that is, the universality of exchange. Negation is what separates verbal thought from silent cognitive operations, such as feelings and mental images. Speaking about what is not happening here and now, or about properties that are not referable to a given object, the human animal deactivates its original neuronal empathy, which is prelinguistic; it distances itself from the prescriptions of its own instinctual endowment and accesses a higher sociality, negotiated and unstable, which establishes the public sphere. In fact, the speaking animal soon learns that the negative statement does not amount to the linguistic double of unpleasant realities or destructive emotions: while it rejects them, negation also names them and thus includes them in social life. Virno sees negation as a crucial effect of civilization, one that is, however, also always exposed to further regressions. Taking his cue from a humble word, the author is capable of unfolding the unexpected phenomenology of the negating consciousness.

Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek

Author : Katerina Chatzopoulou
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198712405
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek written by Katerina Chatzopoulou and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Handbook of Pragmatics

Author : Laurence Horn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756713
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Pragmatics written by Laurence Horn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Includes extensive bibliography that serves as a research tool for those working in pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. Valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language.

A History of English Negation

Author : Gabriella Mazzon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317877721
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book A History of English Negation written by Gabriella Mazzon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negation is one of the main functions in human communication.A History of English Negation is the first book to analyse English negation over the whole of its documented history, using a wide database and accessible terminology. After an introductory chapter, the book analyses evidence from the whole sample of Old English documents available, and from several Middle English and Renaissance documents, showing that the range of forms used at any single stage is wider, and the pace of their change considerably faster, than previously commonly assumed. The book moves on to review current formalised accounts of the situation in Modern English, tracing the changes in rules for expressing negation that have intervened since the earliest documented history of the language. Since the standard is only one variety of a language, it also surveys the means of negation used in some non-standard and dialectal varieties of English. The book concludes with a look at relatively recently born languages such as Pidgins and Creoles, to investigate the degree of naturalness of the principles that rule the expression of English negation.

The Oxford Handbook of Negation

Author : Viviane Déprez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198830521
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Negation written by Viviane Déprez and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers reviews of cross-linguistic research on the major classic issues in negation, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume will be an essential reference on the topic of negation for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines.

No One's Ways

Author : Daniel Heller-Roazen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1935408887
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book No One's Ways written by Daniel Heller-Roazen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer's Outis—“No One,” or “Non-One,” “No Man,” or “Non-Man”—to “soul,” “spirit,” and the unnamable. Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits to call upon, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name. He called himself Outis: “No One,” or “Non-One,” “No Man,” or “Non-Man.” The ploy was a success. He blinded his barbaric host and eluded him, becoming anonymous, for a while, even as he bore a name. Philosophers never forgot the lesson that the ancient hero taught. From Aristotle and his commentators in Greek, Arabic, Latin, and more modern languages, from the masters of the medieval schools to Kant and his many successors, thinkers have exploited the possibilities of adding “non-” to the names of man. Aristotle is the first to write of “indefinite” or “infinite” names, his example being “non-man.” Kant turns to such terms in his theory of the infinite judgment, illustrated by the sentence, “The soul is non-mortal.” Such statements play major roles in the philosophies of Maimon, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Hermann Cohen. They are profoundly reinterpreted in the twentieth century by thinkers as diverse as Carnap and Heidegger. Reconstructing the adventures of a particle in philosophy, Daniel Heller-Roazen seeks to show how a grammatical possibility can be an incitement for thought. Yet he also draws a lesson from persistent examples. The philosophers' infinite names all point to one subject: us. “Non-man” or “soul,” “Spirit” or “the unconditioned,” we are beings who name and name ourselves, bearing witness to the fact that we are, in every sense, unnamable.

Negation in the History of English

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110806053
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Negation in the History of English by : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Download or read book Negation in the History of English written by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

The Evolution of Negation

Author : Pierre Larrivée
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110238616
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Negation written by Pierre Larrivée and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do grammars change? The cycle of negation proposed by Jespersen is crucially linked to the status of items and phrases. The definition of criteria establishing when a polarity item becomes a negative element, and the identification of the role of phrases for the evolution of negation are the two objectives pursued by the contributions to this volume. The contributions look at the emergence of negative items, and their relation within a given sentence, with particular reference to English and French. The comparative perspective supports the documentation of the fine-grained steps that shed light on the factors that (i) determine change and those that (ii) accompany actuation, which are considered through a dialogue between functionalist and formalist approaches. By looking at the place of negation in the architecture of the sentence, they take up the debate as to the relevance of phrasal projections and consider the role of features. Focusing on the make-up of individual items makes it possible to re-conceptualise the Jespersen cycle as the apparent result of the documented evolution patterns of individual (series of) items. This novel perspective is solidly grounded on an extensive use of the complete, up to date bibliography, and will contribute to shape future research.

Hegel's Conception of the Determinate Negation

Author : Terje Sparby
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284613
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Hegel's Conception of the Determinate Negation written by Terje Sparby and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The determinate negation” has by Robert Brandom been called Hegel’s most fundamental conceptual tool. In this book, Terje Sparby agrees about the importance of the term, but rejects Brandom’s interpretation of it. Hegel’s actual use of the term may at first seem to be inconsistent, something that is reflected in the scholarship. However, on closer inspection, three forms of determinate negations can be discerned in Hegel’s texts: A nothing that is something, a moment of transformation through loss (like the Phoenix rising from the ashes), and a unity of opposites. Through an in-depth interpretation of Hegel’s work, a comprehensive account of the determinate negation is developed in which these philosophically challenging ideas are seen as parts of one overarching process.

On Hegel

Author : Karin de Boer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230283284
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book On Hegel written by Karin de Boer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Science of Logic , this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer brings into play a form of negativity that challenges the optimism inherent in modernity and Hegelian dialectics alike.