Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction to Part I; First orientation; Lexical items; The nature of collocational restrictions; Combinability; The idiosyncrasy of collocations; Summary and concluding remarks; Introduction to Part II; The characterization and classification of polarity items; What is a negative context?; Degrees of negativity; Negations and polarity items: towards a classification; Negative contexts and downward monotonicity; Some remarks on scope; Conclusion: polarity items; Introduction to Part III; Negative concord; Weakening of negation: litotes; Denial.
Summary
Ton van der Wouden's account of negative contexts emphasizes pragmatic considerations, as well as semantic and syntactic ones.
