1985/03/01 by Laurence R. Horn · 1 voice · 10 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
paper · doi:10.2307/413423
When 'marked' or 'external' negation has not been treated as an additional semantic operator alongside the straightforward truth-functional, presupposition-preserving ordinary ('internal') negation, it has been collapsed with internal negation into a unified general logical operator on propositions. Neither of these approaches does justice to the differences and kinships between and within the two principal varieties of negation in natural language. Marked negation is not reducible to a truth-functional one-place connective with the familiar truth-table for negation, nor is it definable as a separate logical operator; it represents, rather, a metalinguistic device for registering objection to a previous utterance (not proposition) on any grounds whatever, including the way it was pronounced.*