Perspectives on negation and polarity items / edited by Jack Hoeksema, Hotze Rullmann, Victor Sanchez-Valencia, Ton Van Der Wouden, University of Groningen
Published
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., [2001]
Negative quantifier noun phrases: a typology and an acquisition hypothesis / Jay D. Atlas -- On the typology of negative modals / Johan van der Auwera -- Metalinguistic sentence negation in child English / Kenneth F. Drozd -- Lexical sensitivity in negative polarity verbs / Gabriel Falkenberg -- Varieties of polarity items and the (non)veridicality hypothesis / Anastasia Giannakidou -- Scalarity and polarity: A study of scalar adverbs as polarity items / Jack Hoeksema and Hotze Rullmann -- Flaubert triggers, squatitive negation, and other quirks of grammar / Laurence R. Horn -- On the monotonicity of polar adjectives / Christopher Kennedy -- Polarity sensitivity and collocational restrictions of adverbs of degree / Henny Klein -- Even-incorporated NPIs in Hindi definites and correlatives / Utpal Lahiri -- Perfective sentences under negation and durative adverbials: a double-jointed construction / Anita Mittwoch -- Negative polarity and the syntax of taboo / Gertjan Postma -- Neg-raising: negation as failure / L.M. Tovena
Summary
This study hypothesises that neg-raising is a cognitive phenomenon which arises while the human mind is processing the content of the sentence under the normal assumption of closed world. A 'neg-raised sentence' conveys an epistemic attitude towards the proposition expressed by the subordinate clause. The hedge consists in making it clear that a certain conclusion is compatible with the current information state, but cannot be proven
Notes
Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Groningen in August 1996
