Negation Raising : Logical Form and Linguistic Variation.
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| Author / Creator: | Moscati, Vincenzo. |
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| Imprint: | Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (156 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11171725 |
| Summary: | With this book, the author explores the syntax of negative sentences, tracing the fine-grained contours of linguistic variation and offering a detailed cartographic representation of the distribution of negative markers. The goal is to show the existing tension in language between the variable surface realization of negation and its stable logical representation. In order to solve this tension and to unify the interpretation of negative sentences, a mapping operation, LF-Negation Raising, is... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (156 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781443825337 1443825336 1283141663 9781283141666 |