Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of n

This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German. It addresses both the development of the negation particles as wel

Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negation that makes

The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective

This book is the first cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on an extensive and systematic language sample. Methodological issues, especially sampli