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Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives

  • Offers cutting-edge experimental and cognitive approaches to linguistic research

  • Leading specialists of research in negation and negative polarity present an up to date view of current research

  • Includes a full survey of experimental methods, novel data, and analytic methods

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Language, Cognition, and Mind (LCAM)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction

    • Chungmin Lee
    Pages 1-18
  3. Negation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Dynamic Pragmatic View of Negation Processing

      • Ye Tian, Richard Breheny
      Pages 21-43
    3. A Child’s Multimodal Negations from 1 to 4: The Interplay Between Modalities

      • Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel, Aliyah Morgenstern, Dominique Boutet
      Pages 95-123
  4. Presupposition and Implicature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. Double Negation in Catalan and Spanish. Interaction Between Syntax and Prosody

      • M. Teresa Espinal, Susagna Tubau, Joan Borràs-Comes, Pilar Prieto
      Pages 145-176
    3. The Markedness of Double Negation

      • Pierre Larrivée
      Pages 177-198
    4. An Experimental Study of Neg-Raising Inferences in Korean

      • Sungbom Lee, Seung Jin Hong
      Pages 257-277

About this book

This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various experimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French, Catalan and Korean along with analyses using semantic and pragmatic methods, corpus linguistics, diachronic perspectives and longitudinal acquisitional studies as well as signed and gestural negation. Each contribution is situated with regards to major previous studies, thereby offering readers insights on the current state of the art in research on negation and negative polarity, highlighting how theory and data together contributes to the understanding of cognition and mind.

Keywords

  • Acquisition of negative polarity
  • Expermental approach to negative polarity
  • Neg-Raising in Korean
  • Negative sarcasm
  • Pragmatics and linguistic processing
  • Syntax and prosody of double negation
  • acquisition of negation
  • cognitive and linguistic processes
  • cognitive linguistic research
  • cognitive linguistics research
  • cognitively-relevant research methods in linguistics
  • cross-linguistic perspectives on negation
  • experimental methods in linguistics
  • gestures and negation in French
  • morphosyntactic features of negation
  • multimodal negations
  • negation and negative polarity
  • pragmatic activation in changes to negation
  • psycholinguistic research
  • sign language negation

Editors and Affiliations

  • Département des Sciences du Langage, University of Caen Lower Normandy, Caen, France

    Pierre Larrivée

  • #308 Bldg 150, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Chungmin Lee

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives

  • Editors: Pierre Larrivée, Chungmin Lee

  • Series Title: Language, Cognition, and Mind

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17464-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17463-1Published: 07 August 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36391-2Published: 15 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17464-8Published: 28 July 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2364-4109

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-4117

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 359

  • Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics, Philosophy of Language, Semiotics

Buying options

eBook USD 99.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-17464-8
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Hardcover Book USD 149.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)