The Oxford Handbook of Negation

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.

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 Falaus: 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 - References - Index