The Oxford Handbook of Negation

Viviane Déprez is Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University and Senior Researcher at the CNRS Institute for Cognitive Science Marc Jeannerod in Lyon. Her major fields of research are in comparative and experimental Romance linguistics, French and Creole linguistics, second language acquisition of French, and cognitive sciences. She is the co-editor, with Fabiola Henri, of Negation and Negative Concord: The View from Creoles (Benjamins, 2018) and, with Richard Larson and Hiroko Yamakido, of The Evolution of Language: The Biolinguistics Perspective (CUP, 2010).M.Teresa Espinal is Professor of Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she is a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics. Her main research interests are the theory of language, the syntax-semantics interface, and their relationship with a general theory of cognition. Her work has been published in multiple journals including Language, Journal of Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Pragmatics, The Linguistic Review, Linguistics, Lingua, International Journal of Lexicography, Probus, Frontiers in Psychology, Glossa, Annual Review of Linguistics, and Studia Linguistica. She is the editor of Semántica (Akal, 2014).

The Oxford Handbook of Negation brings together a most competent team of authors, with a list of contributors that reads like a who is who in negation research. The articles have been rigorously peer reviewed, as acknowledged in footnotes and comments. Most contributions provide a comprehensive and balanced overview of their respective topic, without pushing a certain view or overemphasizing the author's own research.

• 1: Viviane Déprez and M.Teresa Espinal: Introduction: Negation in language and beyond Part I: Fundamentals 2: Laurence R. Horn: Negation and opposition: Contradiction and contrariety in logic and language 3: Jacques Moeschler: Negative predicates: Incorporated negation 4: David Ripley: Denial 5: Karen De Clercq: Types of negation 6: Shrikant Joshi: Affixal negation 7: Johan van der Auwera and Olga Krasnoukhova: The typology of negation Part II: Questions in the syntax of negation 8: Chiara Gianollo: The morpho-syntactic nature of the negative marker 9: Cecilia Poletto: The possible positioning of negation 10: Elizabeth Pearce: Negation and constituent ordering: Case studies 11: Josep Quer: The expression of negation in sign languages Part III: Negation at the syntax-semantics interface 12: Laurence R. Horn: Neg-raising 13: Clemens Mayr: Intervention effects with negation 14: Maribel Romero: Form and function of negative, tag, and rhetorical questions 15: Denis Delfitto: Expletive negation 16: Nicholas Fleisher: Calculating the scope of negation: Interaction of negation with quantifiers Part IV: Semantics and pragmatics of negation 17: Naomi Francis and Sabine Iatridou: Modals and negation 18: Barry Schein: Negation in event semantics 19: Anamaria Fălăuş: Negation and alternatives: Interaction with focus constituents 20: Ana Maria Martins: Metalinguistic negation 21: David Beaver and Kristin Denlinger: Negation and presupposition Part V: Negative dependencies 22: Lucia M. Tovena: Negative Polarity Items 23: Susagna Tubau: Minimizers and maximizers as different types of polarity items 24: Hedde Zeiljstra: Negative quantifiers 25: Andrew Weir: Negative fragment answers 26: Anastasia Giannakidou: Negative concord and the nature of negative concord items 27: Henriëtte de Swart: Double negation readings Part VI: Synchronic and diachronic variation in negation 28: Phillip Wallage: Quantitative studies of the use of negative (dependent) expressions 29: Christina Tortora and Frances Blanchette: Negation in non-standard varieties 30: Anne Breitbarth: The negative cycle and beyond 31: Chiara Gianollo: Evolution of negative dependencies 32: Pierre Larrivée: The role of pragmatics in negation change Part VII: Emergence and acquisition of negation 33: Manuel Bohn, Josep Call, and Christoph J. Völter: Evolutionary precursors of negation in non-human reasoning 34: Jean-Rémy Hochmann: Cognitive precursors of negation in pre-verbal infants 35: Rosalind Thornton: Negation and first language acquisition 36: Liliana Sánchez and Jennifer Austin: Negation in L2 acquisition and beyond Part VIII: Experimental investigations of negation 37: Barbara Kaup and Carolin Dudschig: Understanding negation: Issues in the processing of negation 38: Hanna Muller and Colin Phillips: Negative polarity illusions 39: Pilar Prieto and M.Teresa Espinal: Negation, prosody, and gesture 40: Yosef Grodzinsky, Virginia Jaichenco, Isabelle Deschamps, María Elina Sánchez, Martín Fuchs, Peter Pieperhoff, Yonatan Loewenstein, and Katrin Amunts: Negation and the brain: Experiments in health and in focal brain disease, and their theoretical implications 41: Veena D. Dwivedi: Individual differences in processing of negative operators: Implications for bilinguals 42: Ken Ramshøj Christensen: The neurology of negation: fMRI, ERP, and aphasia 43: Liuba Papeo and Manuel de Vega: The neurobiology of lexical and sentential negation References Index