Negation is a central feature of language and cognition, interacting with all areas of grammar as well as with the philosophy of language. The exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory are the main themes of this work.

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.

this volume succeeds in generating a lively internal debate