| Titre | Négation et polarité : les métaphores de la quantité | |
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| Auteur | Francisco Hernandez Paricio | |
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Revue | Langages |
| Numéro | no 162, juin 2006 Polarité, négation et scalarité, sous la direction de Silvia Palma | |
| Page | 73-89 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The connection between negation and polarity has been studied from many points of view, the resulting work comprising a whole array of metaphors on the actual object of study: quantity. In this paper I provide some arguments supporting the relation between the concepts of quantity, negation, and polarity, which should actually be construed as a single concept if a scale based on quantification is established. This scale will necessarily be polar and negation will be a constitutive part of it. Quantity is the element that justifies the connections between scalar implicature and negative polarity. Starting with the logical traditional square, and having in mind Jespersen's ideas on this question, a triangular scheme (an escherian scale) is presented describing the basic values of the system of quantification in Spanish (its basic quantifiers and the peripheral ones) and the relation between the most frequent lexical items for the logical modalities. The main consequence proposed is that polar values should be considered, at least in these cases, as the semantic contents of the corresponding lexical entries. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=LANG_162_0073 |
