| Titre | La nécessité logique et la contingence linguistique des expressions polarisées | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Emmanuel Tyvaert | |
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Revue | Langages |
| Numéro | no 162, juin 2006 Polarité, négation et scalarité, sous la direction de Silvia Palma | |
| Page | 107-126 | |
| Résumé anglais |
A comparison is proposed between the peculiar behaviour of statements containing negative polarity items and the minimal logic (nontraditional logic) negation operator. Under this approach, the habitual filiation of statement validation (where the negative statement “comes after” a positive one by applying a negation operator to the positive statement) becomes inverted and turns into an uncommon filiation, where the negative statement comes first and the positive statement (i.e. the opposite version of the negative statement) comes later, including no logical operator. Statements containing negative polarity items can't be validated compositionally (i.e. as the positive version is not available, it can't be used to calculate the value of the negative statement). They need to be validated directly through their linguistic sense, their status of “figures” being thus capital to perform this step. In our perspective, far from being peculiar elements of utterances statements containing negative polarity items are in fact necessary formulations of natural languages appearing in highly varied forms. They are an essential part to achieve a rational approach to negative statements as a whole. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=LANG_162_0107 |
