Types of Negation and its interaction with Scope

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

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d. Types of Negation and its interaction with Scope

Negation, in logic, is a one-place operator that converts a true proposition into a false one and a false proposition into a true one. In English syntax, any one of the elements no, not, -n’t, never, neither....nor, nowhere, whereas Scope is a semantic property specifying the domain of interpretation of an expression such as an adverb or a quantifier, often relative to another such expression; scope is resolved at the level of LF( Logical Form)

Negation in English is a fascinating area of study, precisely because it plays a central role in affecting both the structure and the total meaning of a sentence at the same time. The term negation is used to cover words such as the  utterance no, not and the contraction -n’t, the negative indefinite pronouns nothing, nobody, the adjectives no (as in no one or no money), the adverbs nowhere , never, and the conjunctions neither...nor.

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