This book offers a unique synthesis of past and current work on the structure, meaning, and use of negation and negative expressions, a topic that has engaged thinkers from Aristotle and the Buddha t
Horn (linguistics and philosophy, Yale U.) presents eight papers exploring patterns of negation in human language across time and space. Topics include the typology of negation, the acquisition of neg
Human thought and action is fundamentally shaped by a small set of cognitive categories, such as time, space, causality, or possession. It is not surprising, therefore, that all natural languages have
In this book, Chris Collins and Paul Postal consider examples such the one below onthe interpretation where Nancy thinks that this course is not interesting: Nancy doesn'tthink this course is interest
In this book, Chris Collins and Paul Postal consider examples such the one below onthe interpretation where Nancy thinks that this course is not interesting: Nancy doesn'tthink this course is interest
