Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives (eBook)

Introduction by Chungmin Lee.- Section I. Negation.- 1. Dynamic Pragmatic View of Negation Processing by Ye Tian & Richard Breheny.- 2. A Featural Approach to Sign Language Negation by Roland Pfau.- 3. Morphosyntactic Correlates of Gestures: A Gesture Associated with Negation in French and its Organisation with Speech by Simon Harrison & Pierre Larrivée.- 4. A Child’s Multimodal Negations from 1 to 4: The Interplay between Modalities by Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel, Aliyah Morgenstern & Dominique Boutet.- Section II. 5. When Negatives are easier to Understand than Affirmatives: The case of Negative Sarcasm by Rachel Giora.- 6. Double Negation in Catalan and Spanish. Interaction between Syntax and Prosody by M. Teresa Espinal, Susagna Tubau, Joan Borràs-Comes & Pilar Prieto.- 7. The Markedness of Double Negation by Pierre Larrivée.- 8. Identifying the role of Pragmatic Activation in Changes to the Expression of English Negation by Phillip Wallage.- 9. Metalinguistically Negated vs. Descriptively Negated Adverbials: ERP Evidence by Chungmin Lee.- 10. An Experimental Study of Neg-Raising in Korean by Sungbom Lee & Seung Jin Hong.- Section III. 11. Licensing NPIs: Some Negative (and Positive) Results by Laurence R. Horn.- 12. Another look at NPIs in Definite Descriptions. An Experimental Approach by Jon Gajewski.- 13. Input vs. Output in the Acquisition of Negative Polarity: The Curious case of any by Lyn Tieu.-  14. The Significance of Formal Features in Language Change Theory and the Evolution of Minimizers by Montserrat Batllori