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Language, Cognition, and Mind Volume 1 Series editor Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Editorial board members Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Peter Gaerdenfors, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Bart Geurts, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Noah D. Goodman, Stanford University, Stanford, USA Robert Ladd, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Dan Lassiter, Stanford University, Stanford, USA Edouard Machery, Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, USA This series takes the current thinking on topics in linguistics from the t heoretical level to validation through empirical and experimental research. The volumes published offer insights on research that combines linguistic perspectives from recently emerging experimental semantics and pragmatics as well as experimental syntax, phonology, and cross-linguistic psycholinguistics with cognitive s cience perspectives on linguistics, psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence and neuroscience, and research into the mind, using all the various technical and critical methods available. The series also publishes cross-linguistic, cross-cultural studies that focus on finding variations and universals with cognitive validity. The peer reviewed edited volumes and monographs in this series inform the reader of the advances made through empirical and experimental research in the language-related cognitive science disciplines. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13376 Pierre Larrivée · Chungmin Lee Editors Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives 1 3 Editors Pierre Larrivée Chungmin Lee Université de Caen Basse-Normandie Department of Linguistics Caen Seoul National University France Seoul Republic of Korea ISSN 2364-4109 ISSN 2364-4117 (electronic) Language, Cognition, and Mind ISBN 978-3-319-17463-1 ISBN 978-3-319-17464-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17464-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015939160 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. 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Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents Introduction ................................................... 1 Chungmin Lee Part I Negation Dynamic Pragmatic View of Negation Processing .................... 21 Ye Tian and Richard Breheny A Featural Approach to Sign Language Negation .................... 45 Roland Pfau Morphosyntactic Correlates of Gestures: A Gesture Associated with Negation in French and Its Organisation with Speech ............ 75 Simon Harrison and Pierre Larrivée A Child’s Multimodal Negations from 1 to 4: The Interplay Between Modalities ................................ 95 Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel, Aliyah Morgenstern and Dominique Boutet Part II Presupposition and Implicature When Negatives Are Easier to Understand Than Affirmatives: The Case of Negative Sarcasm .................................... 127 Rachel Giora Double Negation in Catalan and Spanish. Interaction Between Syntax and Prosody ..................................... 145 M. Teresa Espinal, Susagna Tubau, Joan Borràs-Comes and Pilar Prieto v vi Contents The Markedness of Double Negation .............................. 177 Pierre Larrivée Identifying the Role of Pragmatic Activation in Changes to the Expression of English Negation ............................. 199 Phillip Wallage Metalinguistically Negated Versus Descriptively Negated Adverbials: ERP and Other Evidence ............................. 229 Chungmin Lee An Experimental Study of Neg-Raising Inferences in Korean .......... 257 Sungbom Lee and Seung Jin Hong Part III Negative Polarity Licensing NPIs: Some Negative (and Positive) Results ................ 281 Laurence R. Horn Another Look at NPIs in Definite Descriptions: An Experimental Approach ..................................................... 307 Jon Gajewski Input Versus Output in the Acquisition of Negative Polarity: The Curious Case of Any ........................................ 329 Lyn Tieu The Significance of Formal Features in Language Change Theory and the Evolution of Minimizers ........................... 347 Montserrat Batllori Contributors Montserrat Batllori Departament de Filologia i Comunicació, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3, Paris, France Joan Borràs-Comes Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Dominique Boutet UMR 7023 SFL CNRS, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France Richard Breheny University College London, London, UK M. Teresa Espinal Department de Filologia Catalana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Jon Gajewski Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, CT, USA Rachel Giora Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Simon Harrison School of English, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China Seung Jin Hong Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA Laurence R. Horn Department of Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Pierre Larrivée Département des Sciences du Langage, CRISCO (EA4255), Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Esplanade de la Paix, Caen CEDEX 5, France Chungmin Lee Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea vii viii Contributors Sungbom Lee Department of English Language and Literature, Sogang U niversity, Mapo-Gu, Seoul, Korea Aliyah Morgenstern Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3, Paris, France Roland Pfau Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Pilar Prieto Translation and Language Sciences, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Ye Tian Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France Lyn Tieu Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, CNRS, ENS, Paris, France Susagna Tubau Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, B arcelona, Spain Phillip Wallage Department of Humanities, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Introduction Chungmin Lee Abstract The motivation of the volume is first presented by sketching the his- torical developments of investigations on various negative expressions throughout history in the West and the East. A central concept is classical negation as a truth- reverser vs. asymmetric negation for contrariness and scalarity (contrastive-based). The researches on negation and negative polarity is reviewed, showing how licens- ing has been approached by distinguishing between strong vs. weak NPIs, leaving unresolved issues. The contents of the fifteen chapters of the volume are intro- duced, most of which relate to experimental perspectives. The volume is unique in focusing on crosslinguistic empirical data and cognitive processes. Keywords Negation · Law of contradiction · Law of excluded middle · Contrariness · Markedness · Neg-raising · Scalarity · Contrastive topic · Licensing · Metalinguistic negation · ERP · N400 · Negative concord · Double negation 1 Why This Volume: Studies of Negation and Polarity 1.1 Negation Negative expressions have their kin and foes such as negative polarity, falsity, con- tradiction, metalinguistic negation, irony and sarcasm, expressive or pragmatic negativity, expletive negation, positive polarity, negative concord, neg-raising and double negation, in addition to their core function of classical negation as a I thank Larry Horn for the very helpful last minute comments on this introductory chapter. Thanks also to Pierre Larrivée for helping me to try to make this chapter more readable. The usual disclaimers apply. C. Lee (*) Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 1 P. Larrivée and C. Lee (eds.), Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives, Language, Cognition, and Mind 1, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17464-8_1
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