TY - BOOK ID - 77921891 TI - Negation Raising PY - 2010 SN - 1283141663 1443825336 9786613141668 9781443825337 9781283141666 1443825069 9781443825061 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Language and languages KW - Syntax KW - Negatives (Grammar) KW - Negatives. KW - Syntax. KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77921891 AB - With this book, the author explores the syntax of negative sentences, tracing the fine-grained contours of linguistic variation and offering a detailed cartographic representation of the distribution of negative markers. The goal is to show the existing tension in language between the variable surface realization of negation and its stable logical representation. In order to solve this tension and to unify the interpretation of negative sentences, a mapping operation, LF-Negation Raising, is... ER -