The Oxford Handbook of Negation

Viviane Déprez is Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University and Senior Researcher at the CNRS Institute for Cognitive Science Marc Jeannerod in Lyon. Her major fields of research are in comparative and experimental Romance linguistics, French and Creole linguistics, second language acquisition of French, and cognitive sciences. She is the co-editor, with Fabiola Henri, of Negation and Negative Concord: The View from Creoles (Benjamins, 2018) and, with Richard Larson and Hiroko Yamakido, of The Evolution of Language: The Biolinguistics Perspective (CUP, 2010). M.Teresa Espinal is Professor of Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she is a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics. Her main research interests are the theory of language, the syntax-semantics interface, and their relationship with a general theory of cognition. Her work has been published in multiple journals including Language, Journal of Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Pragmatics, The Linguistic Review, Linguistics, Lingua, International Journal of Lexicography, Probus, Frontiers in Psychology, Glossa, Annual Review of Linguistics, and Studia Linguistica. She is the editor of Semántica (Akal, 2014).

1: Viviane Déprez and M.Teresa Espinal: Introduction: Negation in language and beyond
Part I: Fundamentals
2: Laurence R. Horn: Negation and opposition: Contradiction and contrariety in logic and language
3: Jacques Moeschler: Negative predicates: Incorporated negation
4: David Ripley: Denial
5: Karen De Clercq: Types of negation
6: Shrikant Joshi: Affixal negation
7: Johan van der Auwera and Olga Krasnoukhova: The typology of negation
Part II: Questions in the syntax of negation
8: Chiara Gianollo: The morpho-syntactic nature of the negative marker
9: Cecilia Poletto: The possible positioning of negation
10: Elizabeth Pearce: Negation and constituent ordering: Case studies
11: Josep Quer: The expression of negation in sign languages
Part III: Negation at the syntax-semantics interface
12: Laurence R. Horn: Neg-raising
13: Clemens Mayr: Intervention effects with negation
14: Maribel Romero: Form and function of negative, tag, and rhetorical questions
15: Denis Delfitto: Expletive negation
16: Nicholas Fleisher: Calculating the scope of negation: Interaction of negation with quantifiers
Part IV: Semantics and pragmatics of negation
17: Naomi Francis and Sabine Iatridou: Modals and negation
18: Barry Schein: Negation in event semantics
19: Anamaria Fălăuş: Negation and alternatives: Interaction with focus constituents
20: Ana Maria Martins: Metalinguistic negation
21: David Beaver and Kristin Denlinger: Negation and presupposition
Part V: Negative dependencies
22: Lucia M. Tovena: Negative Polarity Items
23: Susagna Tubau: Minimizers and maximizers as different types of polarity items
24: Hedde Zeiljstra: Negative quantifiers
25: Andrew Weir: Negative fragment answers
26: Anastasia Giannakidou: Negative concord and the nature of negative concord items
27: Henriëtte de Swart: Double negation readings
Part VI: Synchronic and diachronic variation in negation
28: Phillip Wallage: Quantitative studies of the use of negative (dependent) expressions
29: Christina Tortora and Frances Blanchette: Negation in non-standard varieties
30: Anne Breitbarth: The negative cycle and beyond
31: Chiara Gianollo: Evolution of negative dependencies
32: Pierre Larrivée: The role of pragmatics in negation change
Part VII: Emergence and acquisition of negation
33: Manuel Bohn, Josep Call, and Christoph J. Völter: Evolutionary precursors of negation in non-human reasoning
34: Jean-Rémy Hochmann: Cognitive precursors of negation in pre-verbal infants
35: Rosalind Thornton: Negation and first language acquisition
36: Liliana Sánchez and Jennifer Austin: Negation in L2 acquisition and beyond
Part VIII: Experimental investigations of negation
37: Barbara Kaup and Carolin Dudschig: Understanding negation: Issues in the processing of negation
38: Hanna Muller and Colin Phillips: Negative polarity illusions
39: Pilar Prieto and M.Teresa Espinal: Negation, prosody, and gesture
40: Yosef Grodzinsky, Virginia Jaichenco, Isabelle Deschamps, María Elina Sánchez, Martín Fuchs, Peter Pieperhoff, Yonatan Loewenstein, and Katrin Amunts: Negation and the brain: Experiments in health and in focal brain disease, and their theoretical implications
41: Veena D. Dwivedi: Individual differences in processing of negative operators: Implications for bilinguals
42: Ken Ramshøj Christensen: The neurology of negation: fMRI, ERP, and aphasia
43: Liuba Papeo and Manuel de Vega: The neurobiology of lexical and sentential negation
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