Negative polarity is one of the more elusive aspects of linguistics and a subject which has been gaining in importance in recent years. Written from within the well-defined theoretical framework of Generalized Quantifiers, the three main areas considered in this study are: collocations polarity items multiple negations In this mature piece of research, van der Wouden takes into account not only semantic and syntactic considerations, but also, to a large extent, pragmatic ones illustrating a wide array of linguistic approaches.
Negative Contexts: Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation
