This 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 subject--syntactic, pragmatic, semantic, and cognitive--in a variety of language contexts.

• c Introduction


• Negation and Polarity at the Millennium


• 1: Liliane Haegeman: Negative Preposing, Negative Inversion, and the Split CP


• 2: Yasuhiko Kato: Interpretive Asymmetries of Negation


• 3: Ljiljana Progovac: Coordination, C-Command, and 'Logophoric' N-Words


• 4: Jack Hoeksema: Negative Polarity Items


• Triggering, Scope, and C-Command


• 5: Laurence R. Horn: Pick a Theory (any Theory)


• Indiscriminatives and the Free-Choice Indefinite


• 6: Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini: The Force of Negation in Wh Exclamatives and Interrogatives


• 7: William A. Ladusaw: Thetic and Categorical, Stage and Individual, Weak and Strong


• 8: Masa-aki Yamanashi: Negative Inference, Space Construal, and Grammaticalization

Laurence R. Horn is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. His primary research interest is located within the union (if not the intersection) of traditional logic, neo-Gricean pragmatic theory, lexical semantics, and the analysis of negation.