Negative Indefinites

Zusatztext the terrain that P covers in her monograph is an impressively large one and she covers the ground thoroughly, never losing sight of her central thesis. Anyone interested on current thinking on negation and the syntax-semantics interface will find this book interesting and worth reading. Informationen zum Autor Doris Penka is a postdoctoral researcher in the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. Her research focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, in particular the interaction of negation and quantification. Negative Indefinites is a reworking of her 2007 dissertation. Zusammenfassung Doris Penka delivers a unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites - as in the expressions nobody, nothing, never and nowhere - and their counterparts in other languages. Contrary to standard assumptions, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation.

Product details

• Authors: Doris Penka, Doris (Department of Linguistics Penka, Penka Doris
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2010
• EAN: 9780199567263
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956726-3
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical; Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc