Search Results for: Negation And Negative Concord In Romance

Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of n

This volume offers reviews of cross-linguistic research on the major classic issues in negation, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental li

While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negat

Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic competence pr