Negation and Negative Dependencies

This book presents a novel account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change. The pluriform landscape of negative dependencies and markers of negation that emerges is shown to have broader implications for theories of syntax and semantics and their interface.

List of contents

• Part I. Introduction and Outline


• 1: Negation and negative dependencies


• 2: Outline: The pluriform landscape of negative dependencies


• Part II. Negative Concord and Negative Quantifiers


• 3: Negative Concord is syntactic agreement


• 4: Types of Negative Concord systems


• 5: The flexibility of negative features


• 6: Diachronic developments in the domain of negation and NC


• 7: Negative Indefinites and split-scope readings


• 8: Neg-raising


• 9.: Intermezzo. The landscape of polarity-sensitive elements: Convergence vs divergence


• Part III. Polarity-Sensitivity


• 10: Strong vs weak Negative Polarity Items


• 11: Other types of NPIs


• 12: Not a light negation


• 13: Universal Quantifier PPIs


• 14: The landscape of PPIs


• 15: Negation and clause types


• Part IV. Conclusions, Open Questions, and Avenues for Further Research


• 16: Conclusions and open questions


• 17: Avenues for further research


• References


• Index

About the author

Hedde Zeijlstra is Professor of English Linguistics and Theory of Grammar at the University of Göttingen, and previously held positions at the universities of Amsterdam and Tübingen, and at MIT. He is an expert on the syntax-semantics interface, and has worked intensively on negation and negative dependencies, including negative concord, negative polarity sensitivity, and positive polarity sensitivity. He has also worked agreement phenomena, as well as tense, modality, and word order constraints. He is the co-author, with Olaf Koeneman, of Introducing Syntax (CUP, 2017).

Summary

This book presents a novel account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change. The pluriform landscape of negative dependencies and markers of negation that emerges is shown to have broader implications for theories of syntax and semantics and their interface.

Product details

• Authors: Hedde Zeijlstra, Hedde (Professor of English Linguistics Zeijlstra, Hedde (Professor of English Linguistics and Theory of Grammar Zeijlstra, Zeijlstra Hedde
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780198833239
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883323-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• 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, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Semantics & pragmatics, Grammar, syntax