Sentential negation in early child English

No I Understand Negation 1 ‘No I Understand Negation’: A preferential looking paradigm study of early knowledge of sentential and anaphoric negation

Incrementing Discourse with the Negation Relation

Logical t ranslat ions of English sentences typically translate sentential negation as a unary propositional operator. In this paper, I develop the processing aspect of a rather different ontological perspective on negation: namely, negation as a two-place relation. The negation relation takes one argument, its associate, and relates it to the rest of the sentence which forms the second argumen...

An a priori Typology of Sentential Negation from an HPSG Perspective

In this paper I explore the logical range of sentential negation types predicted by the theory of HPSG. I find that typological surveys confirm that attested simple negation strategies neatly line up with the types of lexical material given by assuming Lexical Integrity and standard Phrase Structure Grammar dependencies. I then extend the methodology to bipartite negation and derive a space of ...

Integrating syntactic theory and variationist analysis: The structure of negative indefinites in regional dialects of British English

This paper integrates syntactic theory and variationist analysis in an investigation of the variation between English not-negation (I don’t have any money), no-negation (I have no money) and negative concord (I don’t have no money). Using corpora of three varieties of UK English spoken in Glasgow, Tyneside and Salford respectively, I test two theoretical accounts of the variation. Account 1 app...

The Effect of Intra-sentential, Inter-sentential and Tag- sentential Switching on Teaching Grammar

The present study examined the comparative effect of different types of code-switching, i.e., intrasentential,inter-sentential, and tag-sentential switching on EFL learners grammar learning andteaching. To this end, a sample of 60 Iranian female and male students in two different institutionsin Qazvin was selected. They were assigned to four groups. Each group was randomly assigned toone of the...