Detecting the meaning of French expletive negation ne in avant-clauses

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Perspectives on negation: A view from across the language sciences 1
5. The depiction of negativity: The case of the Brushing Hands gesture used by Hebrew speakers 21
6. The development of negation in language and thought 57
7. Detecting the meaning of French expletive negation ne in avant-clauses 85
8. Negative polar questions in English and Korean: Interactions of structural complexity, ambiguity, and frequency 115
9. Constructing isolation: Linguistic negation, presence and absence in Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood 145
10. The interplay of Arabic negation and pragmatics 177
11. Negation of disagreement in Hindi-Urdu 215
12. What counts as ‘saying the same thing’? 253
13. The permeating syntax of negation: Insights from English negative dependencies 289
14. Comprehending negation 319
15. Index 345