Negative and positive polarity items: An investigation of the interplay of lexical meaning and global conditions on expression

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Typology of negation 9
5. The Acquisition of Negation 39
6. On the diachrony of negation 73
7. Multiple negation in English and other languages 111
8. Quantifier-negation interaction in English: A corpus linguistic study of all...not constructions 149
9. Negative and positive polarity items: An investigation of the interplay of lexical meaning and global conditions on expression 187
10. Negation as a metaphor-inducing operator 225
11. Negation in Classical Japanese 257
12. Negation and polarity in the new millennium: A bibliography 287
13. Backmatter 331