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Negative Indefinites
Doris Penka
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Description for Negative Indefinites
Paperback. 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. Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Num Pages: 280 pages, black and white line drawings. BIC Classification: CFG; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation. In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express ... Read more
In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation. In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199567270
SKU
V9780199567270
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About Doris Penka
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.
Reviews for Negative Indefinites
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.
Elena Herburger, Language
Elena Herburger, Language