Negation and Polarity

'Contains new developments in the study of the syntactic and semantic aspects of negation in natural language.' -Years Work in English StudiesThis book provides a detailed exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory. Including new, specially commissioned work from some of the leading European, American, and Japanese scholars, Negation and Polarity covers all of the main approaches to this subjectDSsyntactic, pragmatic, semantic, and cognitiveDSin a variety of language contexts.